You can now pre-order my book — called Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Security, Spam Spyware and Viruses as follows:
In the US: at Amazon.com click here
In Canada: on Amazon.ca click here.
In Australia: at Angus & Robertson click here

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It will be out in late October! Read more about what’s in this […]

It’s official. The next version of Windows, codenamed Longhorn, has been officially named by Microsoft. It’s called Windows Vista…and its three design goals, Microsoft says, is to include better security (God, I hope so), new ways to organize information, and seamless connectivity to external devices. A test verion is due this summer and it […]

Firefox 1.06 is now available. Get it as follows:
Open Firefox and click the Tools menu and choose Options then click Advanced on the left and scroll down and click Check Now.

Say it aint so but Microsoft is rumored to be sniffing at very unpopular adware company Claria (formerly Gator) as a possible acquisition. No one’s talking and it’s largely rumor but consider this: Microsoft AntiSpyware (beta) is recommending Claria adware be “ignored”. See this. Just reaffirms our position on Call for Help that you […]

Uh -oh - could your janitor’s iPod steal data from your work PC? Um yes its true…. Check out this programmer’s demo file called slurp.exe that proves it can…. click here

Google has been very clear that it will not violate a person’s privacy and disclose content of email stored on its Gmail service to third parties except under very specific circumstances. This includes complying with a law. However there is an alarming clause in its privacy policy that says:
“We do not disclose your personally […]