Epidemic Of Firefox Spyware Infecting Computers Worldwide!

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Quick! Run for the hills! Firefox spyware is running rampant and infecting every computer in sight! *sigh* Sometimes I just want to bang my head on the desk and keep doing it until the desk surrenders unconditionally. If you were to believe several online news sites, there is an epidemic ...

Vulnerability allows scammers to hijack pop-ups

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Security researchers warned this week of a vulnerability in most Web browsers which could potentially allow scammers to launch phishing attacks from pop-up windows on trusted Web sites. The vulnerability arises when an Internet user opens browser windows for both a legitimate Web site and a malicious site at the same ...

Dropping Internet Explorer

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Last week, InfoWorld columnist Oliver Rist recommended that you stop using Microsoft Internet Explorer as your browser. He had good reason: The latest vulnerability reports point out some significant security holes in IE that aren?t going to be easily overcome. According to Rist (who is sitting behind me while I write ...

Prevent Browser Hijacking

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Mike Healan March 23, 2004 If you've ever been infected with a browser hijacker, you know what an infuriating situation it is. For all intents and purposes, your $3,000 computer is converted into a source of revenue for some fly-by-night web site unable to generate legitimate web traffic. Once ...