If you have ever had to clean up your computer to get rid of garbage programs such as browser toolbars and unknown “utilities”, it is important to know how these get on your system so it will not happen again. For the most part, unless you specifically installed these programs, they probably get installed by sneaky installers. For a more in-depth...

Yesterday a ton of people (possibly you included) received an auto-update from Microsoft patching the security flaw recently discovered in IE 7. If you haven’t received it yet for auto-update you will soon enough. Not to be outdone, malware authors have already begun work on alternate ways of exploiting security holes in that browser. One of the ways...

When you run your Windows Updates every month you always see an entry for the ‘Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool’, but have you ever wondered what this actually does? You can read the full details on Microsoft’s site, but in a nutshell this tool is a post-infection removal utility which means it only actually does something if prevalent...