If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Knowing and understanding how to protect your computer and surfing habits online is essential. There are numerous security threats, trojans, viruses, hackers, spammers and more that are readily waiting to steal your information.
Spammers are increasingly turning to mobile [...]

Thankfully it’s low risk but a new virus threat has been detected and you can never be too careful!
“W32/Areses.k@MM is a mass mailer that spreads via e-mail by harvesting e-mail addresses from the infected machine. It also spreads via P2P file sharing networks. Upon execution, the worm copies itself by name “csrss.exe” in %WINDIR% folder. [...]

Two simple precautions can help keep your computer virus free - install and use software from reliable vendors and avoid opening unexpected e-mail attachments.
Almost all e-mail attachments are potential virus carriers. Some of the most famous viruses were distributed by accessing address books of infected computers and sending e-mail (with attachments) to everyone in the [...]

Why is a computer virus harmful? For the same basic reason that biological viruses are: they damage components that keep systems healthy.
Some are relatively benign - they generate annoying, juvenile messages or crash the system once, then go away. But many are specifically designed to do substantial harm - by deleting files needed to run [...]