Avast Antivirus Updated, Download Included
	Avast Antivirus, one of the most popular antivirus names on the market, which also comes in a freeware version, just got updated, the new release including multiple [admark=1]fixes meant to correct glitches found in the previous edition. The 4.8.1195, available in both Home and Professional flavors, comes with a pretty long changelog but here are some of the most important updates included in this release: • solved incompatibility of th ... [read more >>]
	13 May 2008, 04:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

5 Things about Hepatits B
	1. Hepatitis B, like hepatitis A, is a viral infection of the liver; the only difference is that the former is more severe because of its capacity to turn chronic. The infection can be detected via blood samples. The virus of the hepatitis B is transmitted from one person to another via body liquids, including blood, semen, and vaginal fluids (including menstrual blood), but also from mother to child during pregnancy. Still, most people ge ... [read more >>]
	12 May 2008, 09:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Virus Found in Firefox 2 Plug-in
	The language pack supposed to be installed in Firefox 2 by consumers who want to use the Mozilla browser in Vietnamese got compromised by a Trojan horse, Window Snyder, the Mozilla security chief warned yesterday. What's worse is that the plugin was posted straight on the Mozilla Add-on page from where users download and install themes and extensions for Firefox. Window Snyder explained that the Trojan horse was a result of ... [read more >>]
	08 May 2008, 03:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo Search Debuts Virus Protection
	The Sunnyvale-based company Yahoo has just rolled out SearchScan, a technology developed with the help of McAfee, that provides protection from viruses, spyware and spam, usually delivered through malicious websites. Since some of these pages may be already indexed by Yahoo Search and returned to the user, SearchScan comes to protect you by displaying a warning every time you find such a risky website. Priyank Garg, Director P ... [read more >>]
	06 May 2008, 02:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AVG Antivirus Free 8.0 Expected Tomorrow!
	AVG Antivirus is one of the most popular products on the market, especially thanks to the freeware license which allows people to use it as long as they want without paying for it. Sure, there are some limitations, such as the lack of some functions, but since it's quite efficient and available for free, AVG quickly captured the public's attention. Tomorrow, AVG Technologies, the developer of the application, will relea ... [read more >>]
	23 April 2008, 04:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

F-Secure Launches New Windows Security Tool
	F-Secure is a company which has rolled out numerous security applications targeting most operating systems out there, but most focused on Windows. Today, the company has just rolled out a new beta, namely Home Server Security Beta 1.00 build 166, a special software solution which is supposed to bring more security to Windows Home Server systems. Just like the other technologies rolled out by the company, Home Server Security prot ... [read more >>]
	22 April 2008, 03:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Flu Virus Always Comes from Asia
	Flue strikes Europe and North America each winter. But the virus is not native: it always comes from the agglomerated cities of East and Southeast Asia, where new strains of deadly influenza viruses evolve and expand around the globe, as revealed by two new studies published in the journal Science. "For over 60 years, the global migration of influenza viruses has been a mystery," said Colin Russell of the University ... [read more >>]
	21 April 2008, 05:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sometimes, Command Prompt Is the Best Windows Antivirus You Can Get
	Antiviruses are surely some of the must-have software solutions these days when viruses are everywhere hunting for vulnerable computers and unprotected systems. However, there are cases when up-to-date antivirus can prove to be useless. And no, I'm not talking about the cases when an antivirus manufacturer didn't integrate protection for an infection but about those Recycle Bin infections which are totally hidden of the ... [read more >>]
	17 April 2008, 08:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Dede, The Tree Man, Operated and Back for Love
	Remember the case of Dede Koswara, 35, the Indonesian man nicknamed "Tree Man of Java", highlighted by the Discovery Channel? The man had an infection with human papillomavirus (HPV), a common human virus, known to cause warts and cervical (uterine), larynx, esophagus, oropharyngeal (throat, tonsils and back ... [read more >>]
	15 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

"Apple iPod" Shipped with Virus
	First of all, let's clarify a matter: because you may ask "what's with the quotes in the title?" I must explain you one thing. This article is not about one of those popular MP3 players manufactured by the Cupertino-based company, it's actually about a crappy device probably made by some Chinese firm which attempted to lure more consumers by using Apple's logo and product name (some of you may consid ... [read more >>]
	15 April 2008, 06:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Top 10 Viral Infections
	Scientists still debate if they are alive or not, but look what they can inflict in us (and this is just a selection of the most common ones): 1. Flue is caused by a virus transmitted through air. The incubation lasts 1-2 days. The symptoms include fever, cough, loss of appetite, headaches. Ordinary flue can be treated by resting and liquid warm food. The problem that preoccupies the mankind is the possible cross between the virus of or ... [read more >>]
	11 April 2008, 10:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

HP Slaps Its Customers With Virus-Infected USB Stick
	The Australian division of Hewlett Packard issued a warning regarding the optional USB stick the company ships with its ProLiant servers. According to the company, the stick comes not only with drivers for the hardware components, but also with a free copy of malware-infected software. The USB sticks come from a batch of 256 MB and 1 GB pen drives that have been infected with "Fakerecy" and "SillyFDC" viru ... [read more >>]
	08 April 2008, 04:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Over 2 Million Children Worldwide are HIV Infected
	The data are gruesome. About 4 million people got infected with HIV in 2006 and another 3 million died of it. Until now, about 25 million people have died of AIDS and other 40 million people are infected with HIV worldwide, most of them in the Sub-Saharan Africa. A new report made by World Health Organization, UNICEF and UNAIDS shows that more than 2 million children worldwide were HIV positive in 2007. Most of them received t ... [read more >>]
	04 April 2008, 10:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Women, Thrice More Likely to Have Genital Warts Compared to Men
	Genital warts are really a source of stress and shame and very hard to get rid of, as they can grow back after treatment. And a new report published in the journal of "Sexually Transmitted Diseases" shows that 5.6% of the Americans get this infection, caused mainly by the human papillomavirus (HPV), during their lifespan. "The recently introduced HPV vaccine—intended to prevent cervical cancer—is likely to lead ... [read more >>]
	01 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Pro-Tibetan Aimed Cyberattacks
	People supporting the Tibetan cause have more to worry about than Chinese censorship and retaliation, there’s a new wave of attacks aimed at them and in many aspects it’s far more dangerous. The human rights groups that are sympathetic to the anti-Chinese protesters are targeted by cybercriminals, and the messages are all designed in such a way that anti-virus tools will not detect them as being malicious. The emails all have ... [read more >>]
	24 March 2008, 17:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

DNA Tracks Down Bursts of HIV Infection
	The idea that HIV infiltrated slow and steady in London is infirmed by a new research. The study published in "PLoS Medicine" shows that the rapid growth of the HIV/AIDS epidemic during the late 1990s, in the gay community of London, was episodic, with multiple clusters of transmission in a few years, explaining the doubling of the number of the cases during that period. Usually, reconstruction of sexual contact networks has ... [read more >>]
	18 March 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hackers Test Their Viruses Prior to Release
	Once upon a time when the Internet was young and hackers wanted to draw attention to just how capable they were, the usual form of manifestation was causing as much trouble as possible with a single attack. Security companies refined their detection and fight-back tools, so now the fight has been taken to the next level. No longer is a cyber criminal happy with scoring a major hit, now it’s all about expanding the network of malw ... [read more >>]
	03 March 2008, 10:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Oral Sex Is Boosting the Number of Oral Cancer Cases
	This is a little bizarre: while cases of mouth cancers caused by tobacco and alcohol have being decreasing since 1982, due to their lower consume, a new culprit for this type of cancer is causing increasingly more victims: oral sex. More specifically, a human papilloma virus (HPV), which can be transmitted through oral sex, causes tongue, mouth and throat cancers, besides cervical, penile and anal cancers. The number of this ... [read more >>]
	29 February 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Kaspersky Mobile Security 7.0 Now Available
	Kaspersky Lab, one of the world's most appreciated antivirus solutions provider, announced the release of Kaspersky Mobile Security 7.0, a new product that offers integrated protection for smartphones running Windows Mobile and Symbian. Kaspersky Mobile Securi ... [read more >>]
	29 February 2008, 10:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Herpes Can Kill Both the Baby Inside the Womb and the Mother
	A herpes is a much serious issue than you could have thought. These sexually transmitted viruses have been connected to various cancers, from genital to cervical, anal or throat tumors. Now, a team at Adelaide's Women's & Children's Hospital and the University of Adelaide, Australia, has connected for the first time this viral infection to high blood pressure in pregnant women and pre-term birth. The study published i ... [read more >>]
	19 February 2008, 03:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Is Oral Sex More Dangerous for Men?
	This sexually transmitted virus is more dangerous than all others: it can spread through anal and oral sex, and cause cancer in all it touches, from cervical (uterus) cancer in women to anal and oral cancer in both men and women. The human papillomavirus (HPV) causes now as many cancers of the upper throat as tobacco and alcohol, being correlated to a boost in oral sex practice and the decreasing number of smokers. There are anti-HPV v ... [read more >>]
	04 February 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Chimp Virus Could Eliminate Malaria!
	Chimps gave as the HIV virus, but now they could compensate with another one that may cure malaria. This virus triggers cold and stomach trouble in chimps, but it is harmless for humans. Trials made at the Oxford University found an antimalaria boost of the human immune system caused by this virus in 100% of the cases. Previous tests with the virus had showed only a 40% effectiveness. Malaria is found in 500 million people (!) and ... [read more >>]
	01 February 2008, 06:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Breakthrough Method for Obtaining Milk with AntiCancer Drugs
	Milk is recommended for its significant amount of proteins, calcium and vitamins, but scientists thought to make the most of it. A new research published in the February 2008 print edition of "The FASEB Journal" comes with a breakthrough biotechnology that could bring us therapeutic proteins with the milk. The team at the University of Pennsylvania employed gene therapy to cut short the period necessary for animals ... [read more >>]
	31 January 2008, 05:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

No Sex Can Lead to Pain, Sterility and Impotence in Men
	Most of the semen is produced by this gland located at the base of the bladder: the prostate. And here is the issue: up to 50 % of the American males (and not only) will have prostatitis during their lifetimes. About 5 to 10 have it at a particular time. This condition denotes infection or inflammation of the prostate, accompanied by intense pain, urinary complications, sexual dysfunction and infertility, but also issues like t ... [read more >>]
	24 January 2008, 05:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Unexpected Vagina Defence
	On one hand, vaginal sex is the main entrance gate for the HIV into our bodies; on the other hand, women in many countries (like Sub-Saharan Africa) have little control on imposing safe sex (read condom use). That's why this new research made at the UT Southwestern Medical Center, U.S., could save millions of lives and hamper the HIV epidemics: antivirals currently used against HIV infection in adults can impede the vag ... [read more >>]
	18 January 2008, 08:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Digital Bomb Creator Goes Behind Bars
	Yung-Hsun Lin, 51-year-old, from Montville, New Jersey, will get an unexpected holiday behind bars, as he has been sentenced to 30 months in prison. Yung-Hsun was hired as a sys admin at Medco Health Solution, and just after he found out that he might lose his job, he decided to build a computer virus and to deploy it on the company's computers. The infection, which was first scheduled for April 2004, "was designed to wipe ou ... [read more >>]
	10 January 2008, 16:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Infections: 10 Facts
	All organisms catch infections, from plants to whales. Even some bacteria can get infected. 1.Pathogen microbes are of three types: viruses, bacteria and protozoans. Not all the microbes are infectious. Most bacteria are inoffensive. Escherichia coli from our gut has a role in digestion. Diseases appear when our immune system cannot fight infectious microbes. 2.Viruses can barely be considered alive: they are made of genetic molecu ... [read more >>]
	09 January 2008, 16:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

HIV and AIDS Explained to You
	AIDS was first time spotted in 1981, causing confusion and speculation. Medics in Europe and North America detected patients whose organism did not fight germs. They died of various infections, like pneumonia. The disease was clearly infectious and was characterized by a series of symptoms, due mainly to the ruin of the immune system. It was a syndrome, named AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome). By 1983 American and Fr ... [read more >>]
	08 January 2008, 14:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Computer Infections Dueling with Antiviruses for IT Supremacy
	There's nothing new in the title, we have always seen such a battle because viruses keep appearing while security companies struggle to stop them. Until now, our computers were somehow the same, with a few exceptions when the infections managed to cause serious damages. But it seems like things are going to change in the future. As PC World reported a few days ago, the malware infections caused major problems for all securi ... [read more >>]
	07 January 2008, 16:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AlfaAntivirus – The Worst Antivirus You Can Get!
	I bet you first thought I was talking about a real antivirus... You know, that software application especially created to discover and block harmful files... But AlfaAntivirus is not that kind of program, it is actually a fake antivirus solution that wants to trick people and make them believe they are installing a security product. Instead of protecting the computer, it shows numerous popup advertisements and fake security warni ... [read more >>]
	07 January 2008, 16:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Inventor of the First Computer Virus out to Get Google
	No, no horseshoes in the boxing gloves, it’s going to be a fair fight. Unfortunately. I would have liked to see somebody go up against Google and fight dirty, but I guess that there are laws against this, nowadays, they track you anywhere you are and then they do you in. Eh, well, at least there’s going to be a fight after all, although I’m pretty certain that this will be ended in the first round with a KO from Google. Rick Skrenta, th ... [read more >>]
	04 January 2008, 18:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Antivirus Protections Now Used by Virus Creators
	In case you have never used an online antivirus technology that scans your file with several applications at the same time, you should really try it. Instead of scanning a single file with the downloadable solution installed on your computer, you can easily check it with up to 32 security products through a simple online interface. Many of you have already heard of VirusTotal or Jotti, two web-based services supposed to check yo ... [read more >>]
	21 December 2007, 02:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Poliomyelitis: Getting Paralyzed Twice!
	Poliomyelitis is an infectious disease caused by a virus that enters the body through the mouth and multiplies in the gut. When reaching the nervous system, it causes sudden total paralysis. When the virus gets into the brain and spine, it causes fever, exhaustion, headache, vomits, neck and extremities pain. Motor nerves are damaged leading to paralyzed limb and breathing muscles. Usually, the infection is caught during the childhood. ... [read more >>]
	17 December 2007, 10:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Tired Of Seeing Pop-ups On Your Desktop?
	We've seen this in the past, but it appears that there's a new trend among today's Trojan horses: Windows infections that monitor the Internet activity and display desktop pop-up windows related to the websites loaded by the user. This is not so dangerous, but it might be annoying like a baby crying at 6 o'clock in the morning. Security company Trend Micro wrote that TROJ_CLICKER.SM affected all the Windows e ... [read more >>]
	17 December 2007, 06:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Here's One Educational Puzzler for You this Christmas: Brain Sanity
	Care for a nice puzzler? After all, it's almost Christmas and the winter holidays will have you sitting around the house, with loads of free time to spare. Brain Sanity is a surgery-based classic ... [read more >>]
	17 December 2007, 06:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Virus Avalanche Found in Google Results
	It has already been known the fact that most spammers and scammers attempt to get a higher Google PageRank in order to attract more visitors searching for popular keywords and infecting their computers. But, today's report is one of the most dangerous attacks I've ever seen. Let's get straight to the story: a S&M blogger ... [read more >>]
	17 December 2007, 06:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Women Are More Vulnerable to HIV: a Semen Chemical
	By now, HIV-1 has killed over 20 million people and about 35 million live with the infection. The race is desperate for stopping the pandemics and this new discovery is a real breakthrough: a semen chemical boosts HIV's ability to enter human cells. Potential inhibitors of prostatic acidic phosphatase, (PAP) incorporated into new microbicides, could stop the spread of the virus. In fact, the team led by Frank Kirchhoff at the Unive ... [read more >>]
	14 December 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

VirusProtect Doesn't Actually Protect Your Computer
	VirusProtect is the latest threat delivered through the web, although you may be tempted to believe it's a security solution supposed to defend your system from viruses. In fact, VirusProtect is only a rogue anti-spyware technology, which attempts to make you pay money for nothing. Let me explain it to you. Once it reaches your computer, no matter how, VirusProtects displays tens of warning and pop-up windows informing you ... [read more >>]
	12 December 2007, 09:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Much Would You Pay For A Computer Disinfection?
	A new research conducted by IronPort comes to confirm what we all knew: the computer threats, no matter if they are viruses, spam messages, spyware, malware, worms or anything else, are becoming very dangerous for all of us. That's the investment of an important amount of money is needed, in order to get powerful security solutions and protect the systems. At the same time, the already affected users have to invest in disinf ... [read more >>]
	03 December 2007, 16:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sex, Now the Main Cause of Chinese HIV Infections
	HIV entered China in the 1990s mainly through the non checked blood plasma-buying network and infected transfusions in hospitals. But now, sex has bypassed drug syringes as the main factor of HIV transmission in China, and this could lead to a booming of the infection spread from high-risk categories to the overall population, as signaled by a new report made by UNAIDS and a committee of the State Council, China's Cabinet, ... [read more >>]
	03 December 2007, 06:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Man, This Is Smart! A Windows Infection That Gives Remote Control to The Hacker!
	We've seen similar infections in the past, but since this is pretty new, it might manage to bypass the antivirus protection and install on your computer. Security company Trend Micro discovered BKDR_DARKMOON.AH, a new backdoor affecting the Windows operating systems which attempts to open a port in order to allow the hacker to connect to your computer. Basically, it can open any port it wants and, since there are so many rem ... [read more >>]
	27 November 2007, 09:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How About A Virus That Restarts Your Computer?
	WORM_BRONTOK.CE is a new worm discovered by security company Trend Micro which confirmed that the infection affects most Windows versions including 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Server 2003. Although the worm has a medium damage potential and a medium distribution potential, there are no reported infections yet. In case you're wondering how you can get infected, you should know that WORM_BRONTOK.CE can be deployed by other infections or strai ... [read more >>]
	27 November 2007, 03:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

One More Windows Infection, Damage Potential – High!
	It seems like this is the Windows infections day as a new threat was discovered by security vendor Trend Micro, the infection targeting most versions of Microsoft's operating system. Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Server 2003, they're all affected by WORM_AGENT.AFBF, the new worm which seems to be distributed through popular instant messaging applications. The security company reported that WORM_AGENT.AFBF comes with a medium dist ... [read more >>]
	23 November 2007, 08:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Reminder: Don't Forget to Enable Your Antivirus While Browsing Popular Websites!
	A few weeks ago it was reported that multiple popular websites were infected with some sort of malware that attempted to get visitors on other dangerous pages and infect their computers. Today, security vendor Sophos reminds us that it's pretty important to keep our antivirus up-to-date with the last virus definitions and patches as a new popular website was infected with a dangerous malware. Lao Airlines, the company that o ... [read more >>]
	23 November 2007, 06:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Extremely Dangerous Virus Infecting Vital Windows Files!
	There are a lot of infections available out there in the wild waiting for a vulnerable computer but today's threat is somehow special because it attempts to harm your system by itself. How does it manage to do that? It's simple: it aims to infect absolutely necessary Windows files that are vital for the Microsoft operating system. According to security vendor Trend Micro, PE_TUFIK.H-O affects most Windows versions including Windo ... [read more >>]
	23 November 2007, 01:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Every New Burned CD Infected
	We've heard about dangerous viruses which attempt to copy malicious files on removable drives and infect other computers once they are connected to them. But today's report might be something new able to cause serious headaches. According to security company Trend Micro, PE_MABEZAT.A-O is a new virus which attempts to copy itself on every new burned CD and obviously infect clean computers once inserted into the CD-Roms. [ADMARK=1 ... [read more >>]
	22 November 2007, 04:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Infected Emails Knowing Your Name Send You to Judge
	Several security vendors on the web identified a brand new dangerous email scam which attempts to lure recipients to click on infected attachments which could harm their computers. The messages claim to be sent by the US Department of Justice and inform the reader that somebody filed a complaint against the company; but what's more impressive is that the emails include most users' details such as name and company info. ... [read more >>]
	21 November 2007, 05:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

BitDefender Scanner: Removing Viruses, Enhancing Web Attacks
	Since it's accessible via a web-browser, BitDefender Online Scanner is pretty useful when an infection managed to reach your computer and affect the data stored on your drives. But this doesn't necessarily mean the service is also 100 percent safe as a new vulnerability was reported today by Security Focus. Under the "BitDefender Online Scanner OScan. OCX ActiveX Control Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability" tit ... [read more >>]
	21 November 2007, 03:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Meet Dede, The Tree Man
	He may have inspired the Treebeard from "Lord of the Rings". But how did he get in this situation? First, it's about the human papillomavirus (HPV), a common human virus, is known especially as a leading cause of warts and cancer. It is also the main cause of cervical cancer (in uterus) (95 % of the cases). Due to oral sex, HPV can cause larynx, esophagus and oropharyngeal cancer (affecting the throat, tonsils and back of ... [read more >>]
	19 November 2007, 13:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Silly Worm Aiming to Infect USB Devices
	Security vendor Sophos today released an advisory concerning W32/SillyFDC-BK, a new Worm which aims to infect the USB devices connected to the computer and spread every time the infected device is connected to a clean system. Sophos wrote the Worm attempts to install itself in the registry as it only affects the Windows operating systems. There’s no other information about which versions of Microsoft’s operating systems are targe ... [read more >>]
	19 November 2007, 06:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia