As I began writing this article, I received 6 junk e-mail items. No, I don’t need any medication thank you! Oh the joy.
There are spam filtering solutions already out there, but the problem persists, unsolicited e-mail just never seems to end.
The latest company to declare war on spam is BullGuard, who has today announced the [...]

If you see spam in Google search results, you can report it to Google using the Report a Spam Result link. Google claims that they take these allegations seriously and investigates them to see if the results are spammy.
A WebProWorld Forums member is wondering, though, if Google is taking heed to his spam report. [...]

If regular filters can’t stop spam from taking over your inbox, computer science graduate student David Erickson has got your back with Default Off Email (DOEmail), which Erickson developed in tandem with Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Nick McKeown.
DOEmail is a free anti-spam tool that is similar to a buddy list for [...]

PC Tools today announced the launch of the latest release of multi-award winning Spyware Doctor(R), Version 5.5. Building on the success of Spyware Doctor 5, Version 5.5 has been upgraded to provide minimal impact to computer performance and user-friendly functionality.
New features include enhanced rootkit detection and removal, enhanced real-time protection at the kernel level, reduced [...]

Webroot, which became known through its client-side spyware detection market, has announced it would sell an email security service for consumers and small to medium businesses.
The service needs no edge network hardware like filters or security gateways and claims to protect against 98 per cent of email spam and 100 per cent of known viruses.

Cthulhuoid Microsoft has decided it would be nifty idea if you wired up your employees and monitored how they were feeling.
According to the Times, the Vole has patented computer software that would allow managers to remotely monitor the wellbeing and productivity of employees.
Under the glorious Volish vision you would be plugged into Vista and have [...]

Protect your personal data with these essential downloads that offer spyware protection, data encryption and more.
The government isn’t the only one with lessons to learn from recent data disasters: all of us should re-assess how seriously we take data security on a personal level.
First, ensure your PC is protected by a decent firewall. Comodo Firewall [...]

I see viruses. When an antivirus scanner reports a file as being infected, when in fact it is not, that reporting is considered a false positive. False positives aren’t confined to antivirus software either, as Scott Berinato discusses in the article, The Software That Cried Wolf. Indeed, false postives in any security software can be [...]

Over the past month a new type of malicious software has emerged, called a master boot record rootkit.
Over the past month, a new type of malicious software has emerged, using a decades-old technique to hide itself from antivirus software.
The malware, called Trojan.Mebroot by Symantec, installs itself on the first part of the computer’s hard drive [...]

Seen more as a prank than an actual threat, a Trojan horse for the Apple iPhone, first reported on Saturday, has already come and gone. Still, users should be on the look out for a package called "iPhone firmware 1.1.3 prep," described as something you need to install before updating to the new 1.1.3 firmware. [...]