Ad-Aware is one of those anti-malware applications that most of us use on a regular basis and are familiar with the way that it looks but Lavasoft (the ad-aware parent company) is looking to change that. They have been running a skin design contest and now it is down to the final voting process. Head [...] Read more »

While I have always been against hardware manufactures altering operating systems, this story from yesterday takes the cake. As is typical, cell phone manufactures customize the images that their customers use. Usually this is just adding a few basic applications to the devices and plastering their name all over the place. For one cellular carrier [...] Read more »

Malware is just an accepted part of today’s computing but it is getting more aggressive and is even targeting non-traditional areas such as routers and DSL modems.  Thankfully router manufactures are starting to catch up and update their security. D-Link has announced that they are adding CAPTCHA‘s to their routers to try and help reduce [...] Read more »

First of all I have to say I love Lifehacker and their unique articles.  However one of their recent polls for the “Hive Five” of anti-malware applications determined that readers thought SpyBot Search & Destroy was the best “malware slayer”.  Now honestly I am not sure how they could have come to this conclusion.  When [...] Read more »

Cloud operating systems have been the focus of a lot of companies for the last few months due to their projected savings.  They can also be a very convenient way to get access to your data regardless where you are at in the world.  Now we are seeing one of the first “Cloud Antivirus” applications. [...] Read more »