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The key to an open, transparent malware filtering system

The key to an open, transparent malware filtering systemOpen DNShttp://www.opendns.com/Easy to implement, not browser specific, not OS specific, tells you why a site has been blocked, custom content exclusion, ability to share/group profiles.It's worked well for me, YMMV.Malware filteringWell said. You've put the essentials in concise but thorough list.RE:...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Black-listing, transparent malware, malware

Discussion threads 2008-07-09

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Schiller: App Store isn't broken

The truth hurtsThe truth is consumer lacks the ability to make good decision regarding the security of their data. We are regularly tricked into click-installing things while surfing the web, download trojans and other malware, give out information over the phone that we shouldn't etc ... and we never...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, approval process, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner 5.0.3 (Mac)

Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner is an award winning general purpose tool for Mac OS X. sLCC makes system maintenance simple with an easy point and click interface to many OS X functions. Novice and expert users alike will appreciate the powerful toolset sLCC provides. Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner is installed...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Antivirus, Malware, Tool, Northern Softworks, Maintainenance Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner, sLCC Engine, Apple Mac OS X, Internet, Cyberthreats, Productivity, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Operating Systems, Security, Software, Apple Mac OS

Software downloads 2009-11-09

In search of a standard for displaying security threat levels

A security researcher is challenging the anti-malware industry to work on a standard way of assigning computer/Internet threat levels to present transparent helpful information to consumers and businesses. by Ryan Naraine

Tags: Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-09-24

iPhone's anti-phishing protection offers inconsistent results

Apple's iPhone OS 3.1 update includes a new fraud warning feature which is at least theoretically, supposed to warn users when visiting fraudulent websites in Safari Mobile. However, due to a flawed implementation in the update mechanism, the feature -- enabled by default -- is offering inconsistent...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Safari, Mobile, Fraud, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Litigation, Smart Phones, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Business Operations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-09-10

TrustPort PC Security 2009 2.0.0.1278 (Windows)

TrustPort PC Security 2009 is a comprehensive software solution for the safety of your computer. At all entry points, it protects against various types of malicious codes; it provides antivirus, antispyware and antiadware control. It checks electronic mail and reliably takes away spam. It prevents downloading malware from the web...

Tags: Disk, Antivirus, Microsoft Windows, TrustPort, TrustPort PC Security 2009, Internet, Viruses And Worms, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Cyberthreats

Software downloads 2009-07-27

News to know: Best hardware; Malware; Netbooks; Social CRM

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Paul Greenberg: Time to Put A Stake in The Ground on Social CRM Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Hardware 2.0 'Very Best Kit...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Malware, Apple Inc., Matthew Miller, Photograph, Netbook, CRM, Microsoft Windows 7, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Smart Phones, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-06

Happy Friday: 48 Snow Leopard screen shots

Happy Friday: 48 Snow Leopard screen shotsHaha, this is a blatant copy of Vista!!Using Apple zealot logic where the HTC Touch Diamond (and every other full screen touch screen cell phone ever released in the last 5 years) is a clone of the iPhone instead of the HTC Touch (that...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Desktops, Apple Inc., Snow Leopard, HTC Touch, High Tech Computer Corp., Apple Macintosh, Apple iPhone, Microsoft Windows Vista, Ubuntu

Discussion threads 2009-05-29

Windows 7 build 7057 - Performance that blasts past XP, Vista and previous builds

Windows 7 build 7057 - Performance that blasts past XP, Vista and previous buildsWill you be able to post the actual times?Just wondering.a lot of work, but...where's the beef.Many people don't care about windoze anymore.The real test can be only against Linux and OSX.You must care linux geekAs your here...

Tags: Performance management, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 7 Build 7057, Windows 7 Build, XP Vista, Microsoft Windows, performance, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-03-16

News to know: Pwn2Own; Windows advice; Palm; JavaFX

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily .  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Ed Burnette: Java gets a mobile makeover with JavaFX Mobile Ryan Naraine: Pwn2Own hacker contest targets browsers, smart...

Tags: JavaFX, Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Palm Inc., Taxes, Microsoft Windows, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Software As A Service (SaaS), Operating Systems, Financial Planning, Finance, Software, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-12

Fake Antivirus XP pops-up at Cleveland.com

Have we reached the phrase when targeted advertising would equal evasive malware campaigns pushed through third-party ad networks, to a geolocated set of visitors only? Could be. During the weekend, rogue antivirus XP pop-ups were served to visitors of Cleveland.com, according to visitors' complaints which I also managed to verify....

Tags: Advertisement, Network, Antivirus, Ad Network, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Networking, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-02-10

Mom, apple pie and open source

Mom, apple pie and open sourceRunning Centos....Well, I have to say not having any Windows OS'sto get infected and being the fact I installedRed Hat 8.0 on her pc several years ago and nowshe has Centos 5.2 with no issues.She does not know anything about computers, otherthan click on icon...

Tags: open source, government

Discussion threads 2009-01-30

Kyrgyzstan under cyberattack

Kyrgyzstan under cyberattackMe thinks russia thinks they are too small and need more terrirtoryThey are reclaiming what was theirs. I cant say that i wouldnt if i had the chance. They have the money now, so why not. I dont agree with it, these are soverign countries though.Now...

Tags: Hacking, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Kyrgyzstan, cyberattack, Putin

Discussion threads 2009-01-29

Analysis of an Attack of Web-Based Malware

Internet has become an ally platform of attack for malware creators, who through the use of different techniques such as Drive-by-Download, Drive-by-Update, scripting, exploit, among others, and combining them seek to recruit an army of computers that respond only to their malicious instructions. These attacks, using the Internet as a...

Tags: Web, Malware, Analysis, Attack, Evilfingers, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Internet, Viruses And Worms

White papers 2009-01-03

Google Chrome is insanely fast ... faster than Firefox 3.0

Google Chrome is insanely fast ... faster than Firefox 3.0how about with Safari 3.x /4.x & OperaI would like to see comparison chart with with Safari 3/4 & operaRE: Google Chrome is insanely fast ... faster than Firefox 3.0Fast, yes, but without adblock or equivalent, too painful to use.Well,...

Tags: Web browsers, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

Disk Defensor 2.0 (Windows)

Disk Defensor is a transparent(on-the-fly) disk/cd encryption system,which combines with AES 256-bit encryption.It can make a disk partition encrypted on the windows system or create some new virtual disks and cds.Using this encryption software does not require any particular actions or change in your routine activities.After encrypted, all the operation...

Tags: Disk, Microsoft Windows, Godsw, Disk Defensor

Software downloads 2008-08-07

Rise of the 'legit' malware sites

About 75 percent of all Web sites serving up malicious code are legitimate sites that have been hacked/compromised, according to a new report from WebSense. This number validates statistics from ScanSafe showing a dramatic rise in 'good' sites being being used as a conduit for drive-by malware...

Tags: Web, Vulnerability, Websense Inc., Malware, Spam, Attack, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Channel Management, Security, Viruses And Worms, Marketing, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-08-01

MailScan for SMTP Servers 5.6 (Windows)

MailScan 5.3 for SMTP is the world's most advanced AntiVirus and AntiSpam Solution for Mail Servers that work on platforms like Windows, Unix, Linux, Novell and Solaris. It's installed on a Windows machine to act as a Security Gateway between your Mail Server and the Internet. MailScan 5.3 offers powerful...

Tags: SMTP, MicroWorld Technologies, SMTP Transparent Proxy SMTP Transparent Proxy, E-mail, Microsoft Windows, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Online Communications, Operating Systems, Software, Security, Spam And Phishing

Software downloads 2008-07-14

News to know: Midori; Yahoo; iPhone; VMware

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: On the road to Midori: RedHawk, MinSafe and Sapphire Next Microsoft enterprise instant messaging/VOIP server: Think 2009 Microsoft to push XP SP3 via Auto Update on July 10 Microsoft to deliver SQL Server 2008 in August...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Open Source, Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., VMware Inc., Phishing, 3G, Cyberthreats, Hardware Upgrade, Spam, Strategy, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-10

The key to an open, transparent malware filtering system

* Ryan Naraine is on vacation. Guest editorial by Max Weinstein It's no secret that Web sites have become a medium of choice for delivering malware and soliciting personal information for criminal use. One increasingly popular approach to addressing this problem is warning...

Tags: Malware, Web Site, Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-09