My wife’s laptop contracted the antivirus 2009 spyware. This is a pain to get rid of – there are some good and thorough instructions on the windowsxp/vista blog about how to remove it. HOWEVER I followed these instructions and found that there is a gateway to let the virus in through the MSN interface when [...]

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Microsoft claims this Vista update will improve stability, security and performance. It also warns that the Update could cause some software to malfunction, including some security software like the anti-virus from BitDefender and Trend Micro. The other programmes that may be affected by this update are: BitDefender AV Fujitsu Shock Sensor Jiangmin KV Antivirus 10 [...]

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Electronics giant Sony has confirmed a recently discovered security flaw in some of its products that could leave PCs vulnerable to attack by hackers. The firm said that the fault, which affected software packaged with memory sticks, was developed by a third-party. Sony said it was conducting an internal investigation into the problem and would [...]

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Research conducted by IT security and control firm Sophos has revealed that 50 percent of workers are being blocked from accessing Facebook by their employers who are worried about the website’s impact on productivity and security, and have therefore put policies or access controls in place to ban its use in the workplace.In a Sophos [...]

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At the moment about 80% – 90% of the e-mail our organization receives is probably SPAM. This is a huge pain for all of us here who don’t have anti-spam loaded on our systems. Because we are running a Terminal Server environment we are not able to run the Microsoft Outlook Anti-Spam filter, so we [...]

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A great free anti-virus program I use is AVG by Grisoft. You can download it at free.grisoft.com. I have never had any problems with it and it has saved me from a few viruses. It will automatically update if you tell it to.

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