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Cyberthieves are watching. Here's how to keep your data safe and sound

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Cyberthieves are watching. Here's how to keep your data safe and sound

A software development kit from Apple that will let third-party programmers design software for the iPhone means the famous little handheld is going to get a lot more fun and useful. These developers will need to submit their new programs to Apple for approval, which means no pornography, spyware or software that would unlock the iPhone and let it work on wireless cellular systems other than ...

Two days after actor Heath Ledger died, e-mails began moving across the Internet purportedly carrying a link to a detailed police report divulging "the real reason" behind the actor's death. Ledger had been summarily drafted into the service of a botnet. Bots are compromised computers controlled by profit-minded crooks. Those e-mails were spread by a network of thousands of bots, called a ...

If you've used the G-Archiver program to back up your Gmail (aka Google Mail) email, you've got a headache on your hands. The program has been revealed to be a malicious spyware app that emails your Gmail username and password to a secret Gmail account. This revelation is especially troubling because most Gmail users use a single Google account to access a wide range of services. Those ...

AntiSpywareControl is a corrupt anti-spyware application associated with the same group of rogues that include the notorious WinSecureAv and AntivirusPCSuite. AntiSpywareControl may be brought into your computer by a Trojan parasite that may infiltrate your machine through browser security exploits. AntiSpywareControl uses false error messages in hopes of scaring you into purchasing the full version of the program. The messages displayed by AntiSpywareControl state that your computer is infected with dangerous parasites that could be swept out of your machine by the full version, which, of course, is fake. AntiSpywareControl is not a legitimate computer cleanup tool and, therefore, should be removed from your computer system without any hesitation.

X-Max.net (a clone of Webcry) is a malevolent browser hijacker. X-Max.net may be brought into and infect your machine by various Trojans that have the ability to exploit browser security weaknesses for their own malicious needs. Corrupt video codecs are also known to spread X-Max.net. As soon as X-Max.net is inside your system, it will hijack your browser and start redirecting Google and Yahoo search results to malicious websites that may include pornographic and gambling content, as well as aggressive and deceitful advertising. X-Max.net may also try to trick you into buying a fake anti-spyware application by displaying misleading parasite infection reports. It is strongly recommended to eliminate X-Max.net from your computer as soon as possible.

Troj/Pushu is a malevolent Trojan parasite that is designed to foray Windows platform users. Troj/Pushu is frequently brought into your machine bundled with fake video codecs, or is downloaded from popular peer-to-peer sites. Once in your system, Troj/Pushu will install itself into the Registry, thus enabling itself to run stealthily, as well as load at every Windows boot. Troj/Pushu will then derange your security system by modifying security settings, thus allowing additional parasite infections to compromise your machine unnoticed. Troj/Pushu is also known to aggravate system performance fluency notably. It is strongly recommended to dispose of Troj/Pushu upon detection.