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If you or a friend have been conned into installing one of the fake anti-virus tools that has been doing the round recently, you'll be delighted to hear that G Data are offering a free tool to remove the most prevalent type of scareware, "System Tool". Many of us will have seen those pop-ups claiming that our PCs have been
Regrettably, I don't get to see my folks as much as I'd like....there's 500-odd miles and a sea between us, so it was a rare pleasure for my parents to visit me over Christmas for a few days. After a day or so, my dad says to me, "Could you have a look at my laptop? Every now and then
Panda Software, a respected vendor of antivirus software applications within the technical community, has named a Trojan, Downloader.GK, as the most malicious virus of 2004. Even though Downloader.GK isn't technically a virus, an application that independently distributes itself, the program has caused the most damage to users' computers, according to data collected by Panda Software's ActiveScan process. Until now, the
Users of Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) are vulnerable to infection by the Bofra worm, downloaded through website banner ads.