5 posts and columns on anti-virus

An iPhoto Slide Show on CD

in Mossberg’s Mailbox on February 8 at 6:01 pm PT

Walt answers a reader’s question on how to burn an iPhoto slide show onto a CD.

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Google Sounds Alarm on Malware Problem

in News on July 19, 2011 at 11:43 pm PT

Google said late Tuesday that it will use its search engine to respond to an outbreak of malicious software, or malware, that the company recently uncovered.

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Cybercrooks Digging for Tax Data

in News on March 11, 2011 at 1:56 pm PT

It’s tax season, which means cyber-thieves are trawling the Web and sending counterfeit email in the hopes of snaring your personal tax data. And they’ve created websites with reasonable-seeming addresses and legitimate-seeming emails in order to lure unsuspecting citizens into clicking on the wrong link or downloading a virus-laden PDF.

Wi-Fi Hotspot Safety and Mac Viruses

in Mossberg’s Mailbox on December 29, 2010 at 2:50 pm PT

Walt answers readers’ questions on just how safe are Wi-Fi hotspots and should Mac owners worry about computer viruses.

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Hackers Target Basketball Fans With March Madness Malware

in News on March 20, 2009 at 8:39 am PT

Basketball fans, beware. Hackers are taking advantage of bracket-related Web surfing and initiating some madness of their own, with tactics as sneaky as spreading malicious software through March Madness blog posts. Online security company Websense discovered two March Madness-related malware scams earlier this week, one in the form of URLs posted in blog comments that took users to a phony antivirus scanning site, and another as a search-engine-optimization scam that infected basketball-related terms and pushed them to the top in Google.