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"Viagra 4 Cheap! Amateur Teen Webcams! Nigerian Prince In Need of Help!" It's safe to say you shouldn't click on anything with those phrases, but check here for the latest email scams, virus warnings, spam spyware and other threats to your security currently infiltrating the Web.

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New software uses facial recognition to defend against prying eyes Image

New software uses facial recognition to defend against prying eyes

Security firm RSA attacked using Excel-Flash one-two sucker punch Image

Security firm RSA attacked using Excel-Flash one-two sucker punch

WordPress 3.1.1 is a recommended security update, also improves performance Image

WordPress 3.1.1 is a recommended security update, also improves performance

Google Chrome and Chromium add protection against malicious downloads Image

Google Chrome and Chromium add protection against malicious downloads

Untethered iOS 4.3.1 jailbreak is go with redsn0w and PwnageTool for Windows and OS X, minus iPad 2 Image

Untethered iOS 4.3.1 jailbreak is go with redsn0w and PwnageTool for Windows and OS X, minus iPad 2

Gargantuan SQL injection infects 3.8 million URLs, installs rogue antivirus Image

Gargantuan SQL injection infects 3.8 million URLs, installs rogue antivirus

Fake pirated Walk and Text Android app embarrasses pirates and steals sensitive data Image

Fake pirated Walk and Text Android app embarrasses pirates and steals sensitive data

Top Facebook scams revealed by BitDefender (infographic) Image

Top Facebook scams revealed by BitDefender (infographic)

BufferZone sandboxing for Windows goes 64-bit, beta available for download Image

BufferZone sandboxing for Windows goes 64-bit, beta available for download

March 31 is World Backup Day 2011 Image

March 31 is World Backup Day 2011

AVG Mobilation for Android tablets is a full-featured security suite Image

AVG Mobilation for Android tablets is a full-featured security suite

Adobe patches latest Flash and Reader vulnerabilities Image

Adobe patches latest Flash and Reader vulnerabilities

Panda CEO and CTO talk Cloud Antivirus 1.0 as download link goes live Image

Panda CEO and CTO talk Cloud Antivirus 1.0 as download link goes live

What the Zuk: KeePass is an essential tool for your online security Image

What the Zuk: KeePass is an essential tool for your online security

How to recognize an email scam or phishing attempt Image

How to recognize an email scam or phishing attempt

The best (or worst) security breaches of 2010 Image

The best (or worst) security breaches of 2010

Firefox Friday: invasive, all-inclusive interview with Asa Dotzler, Mozilla's community director Image

Firefox Friday: invasive, all-inclusive interview with Asa Dotzler, Mozilla's community director

Understanding the Android Market security system Image

Understanding the Android Market security system

Firefox Friday Five: 3.6.4, tabs-on-top, your own out-of-process plugins, HTML5 king of the hill, and making Firefox child-friendly! Image

Firefox Friday Five: 3.6.4, tabs-on-top, your own out-of-process plugins, HTML5 king of the hill, and making Firefox child-friendly!

Firefox Friday Five: Encrypt the Web, Firefox on the iPhone, and a few tricks! Image

Firefox Friday Five: Encrypt the Web, Firefox on the iPhone, and a few tricks!

Firefox Friday Five: on security, the World Cup and WebM Image

Firefox Friday Five: on security, the World Cup and WebM

Five Windows 7 features average users should know about -- and use! Image

Five Windows 7 features average users should know about -- and use!

A guide to protecting your information on the New Facebook Image

A guide to protecting your information on the New Facebook

9 extensions that make browsing the web with Google Chrome even safer! Image

9 extensions that make browsing the web with Google Chrome even safer!

10+ great tools for safer web browsing Image

10+ great tools for safer web browsing

News flash: everything on the Internet is hackable Image

News flash: everything on the Internet is hackable

Usability rant: why doesn't KeePass have a Read-Only mode? Image

Usability rant: why doesn't KeePass have a Read-Only mode?

Hey, Norton: why does Security Scan behave so much like the malware I remove? Image

Hey, Norton: why does Security Scan behave so much like the malware I remove?

Lark Antispyware is free, but sometimes getting what you pay for is a bad thing Image

Lark Antispyware is free, but sometimes getting what you pay for is a bad thing

Intego exaggerates Mac virus threat, misinterprets Apple PR to scare you into buying their anti-virus package Image

Intego exaggerates Mac virus threat, misinterprets Apple PR to scare you into buying their anti-virus package

Is Rudder's security breach really serious or is the web overreacting? Image

Is Rudder's security breach really serious or is the web overreacting?

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Immunet Protect anvitirus version 3.0 screenshots

Immunet Protect anvitirus version 3.0 screenshots

Feb 9th 2011 7:52AM

Cocoon, an all-in-one secure and private surfing solution for Firefox

Cocoon, an all-in-one secure and private surfing solution for Firefox

Jan 13th 2011 12:20PM