computer virus

The Better Business Bureau of Minnesota and North Dakota reports consumers have been receiving fraudulent confirmation e-mails claiming to originate from the online shoe retailer Zappos. In a public statement on the incident, the BBB calls these e-mails "suspicious." Consumers are advised not to...

Everybody's worst online banking fears have come true -- for some German banking customers. The rest of us can hold our collective breath and hope that we don't have to deal with this, although it seems inevitable that some of us will. A cyber-criminal gang in the Ukraine has developed a very...

This morning, as I went about my merry business on my computer, I had an e-mail come in from an old college friend through Facebook.I guess I should have known. I think of myself as pretty savvy, never opening strange attachments, avoiding clicking on links that look suspicious and so on. But since...

AVG Technologies today announced some startling statistics about the newest tactics employed by thieves attempting to steal Internet users' personal information and infect their computers with malware. According to the company, each day these scumbags create 200,000-300,000 new web sites with...