Scamware “Everyone in every culture knows the story of the snake oil salesmen. You know those charlatans who traveled from town to town pandering the elixir of life to anyone who would listen to their shtick. The elixir of life, as it turned out, was mostly alcohol with some bark extracts and flavoring. But those poor old teetotalers… Read More »
Your First Line of Defense is YOU You’re going to hear tell of all kinds of miracle programs that can save you from every single danger you’ll face on the Web…but we’re hear to tell you that that is just not true. What if someone told you that if just install this one little device on your car,… Read More »
Our friends at Emsisoft wrote and gave us permission to publish this article on our Web site. We’ve exposed Avast and AVG before – they install PUPs and search engine and browser toolbars and hijackers. Supposedly free, the price you pay in aggravation may make you take another look at them. And considering neither Avast nor AVG have… Read More »
Identity Theft and You The term “identity theft” is tossed around a lot – you see it everywhere. However, when it comes to identity theft what you think you know about it can can be more dangerous that what you don’t know about it. There are a lot of myths about identity theft, and we’re pretty sure that… Read More »
Who’s Worse: The Malware Miscreants or the Companies Who Make False Promises? It’s a shame that we all have to be so careful when we download or even just browse the Web these days. The more mature the Internet gets the more sophisticated the tricks become. And it’s bad enough when criminals and miscreants posing as Web developers… Read More »
Our friends at Emsisoft are on the ball and are on top of a new ransomware called PClock which copies CryptoLocker. If a computer is infected with PClock the user will be asked to pay a $300 ransom to unlock their files. In other words, if you don’t pay the ransom you’ll not be able to open many… Read More »