Virus Alert: IRCBot.CNK connects to IRC server

According to this weeks PandaLabs reports the IRCBot.CNK, a variant of the IRCBot.CNE, is designed to connect to an IRC server to receive remote commands, including:
- Capturing network traffic.
- Downloading any type of file, including malware.
- Updating itself.
This worm also adds itself to the list of authorized applications in the Windows XP firewall.
It spreads by [...]

YouTube videos contain comments with links to a malicious Web page

According to PandaLabs, almost 30,000 videos on YouTube contain comments with links to a malicious web page. Further, they report that this is yet another example of how cyber-criminals are infiltrating the popular Web 2.0 and social networking sites to distribute malware.
Such attacks have previously been seen on sites including Digg.com and Facebook. Now Panda [...]

Next time you call for Support, Ask for an American Operator

With today’s outsourcing of America, it has become an all to often occurrence that when you call any company for tech support or customer service you are likely to be greeted with a voice from another country that you can barely understand. This can happen when you call nearly any company today including your own [...]

Windows 7 vs. Apple Mac OS X

Well, it looks like a horse race has ensued between Microsoft and Apple that might change the complexion of those humorous TV commercials that we have come to know and love. Microsoft may be taking back some of the Operating System marketplace that it lost to Apple over the years with vulnerability ridden operating systems, [...]