Tag: FSECURE

Security firm F-Secure has shared some interesting information regarding spam. It's no secret that Facebook has become a popular platform for spammers and poisoned links (URLs that lead to malware). What you might not realize is how successful spammers are on Facebook. F-Secure reports click rates as high as 40%. That's insane. Email spam isn't even in the same solar system percentage-wise. ...

What's the best anti-virus solution? Well, I dunno, but CNet does-it's running a review round-up of six major anti-virus apps: AVG Anti-Virus 7.1 Professional, CA eTrust EZ Antivirus 7.1, F-Secure Internet Security 2006, Kapersky Internet Security 6, McAfee VirusScan 2006, and Trend Micro PC-cillin 2006. The results may surprise you (I always wonder if I should put spoiler warnings on these ...

When will they ever learn? Poker blogger and self-avowed geek Wil Wheaton has a note about Rakeback calculator, which F-Secure says contains a trojan. Apparently when RBCalc.exe is run, it drops the payload on your machine, which then proceeds to snatch your logins to familiar poker websites. The distributor, Checkraised.com, has disavowed any knowledge, and put up a welcome how-to for removing ...