I have never since this before when I have clicked on thousands of bit.ly links before. However, when I clicked on a Bit.ly URL today, it displayed a warning to me that the site in question is harmful and may harm my computer. The warning is something similar to what Google displays to users on Firefox and Google Chrome.

XP-Antispy is a freeware application which allows you to secure some of XP’s security holes and keep XP from reporting to Microsoft when it doesn’t need to. Who knows what it’s reporting about you?

Immunet Protect offers you free real time and constantly updated antivirus protection. The addition of 20 more friendly anti-virus apps to it’s compatibility list is only one more reason to try it out.

In a somewhat scaring discovery, two experimental Firefox add-ons were found to be containing Trojans. The add-ons included version 4.0 of Sothink Web Video Downloader and Master Filer.

McAfee is a well known provider of security software for home and business PCs. How would you like a free security scan from McAfee? I’ll tell you why I didn’t like what I saw.

Keeping your programs up to date can prevent your PC from being hacked. Secunia OSI offers a quick scan of the programs installed on your Windows PC, and tells you which need to be updated.

The number of downloads of Firefox as well as Opera surged in Germany after the Government advised against using Internet Explorer.

India’s National Security Advisor has revealed that India was also targeted by Chinese hackers in mid-December.

Gmail had an option for users to use HTTPS as default through a Gmail Labs feature. Today, Google graduated the feature out of labs. This means that all Gmail users will now automatically start using HTTPS by default. However, users have an option to disable HTTPS by default by visiting “Settings -> Labs” and choosing “Don’t always use https”

Back in August ’09, Apple had quietly added a malware blocker to Mac OS X (Snow Leopard). However, some six months after that feature was first introduced, it seems to have been abandoned by Apple.

According to a new study by McAfee, who are one of the top security software vendors, shortened URLs will be the heavy target for Cyber criminals on sites like Twitter and Facebook in 2010.

Amazing discounts on AVG products including 80% discount on a 1 year license of AVG Internet Security.

Which anivirus software has the least impact on system performance? Av-comparatives put 16 popular antivirus software to the test in order to find the answer.

Yes, the little dog (XP Search Assistant) is a spy, but you can terminate this spy with a registry hack or a PowerToy from Microsoft. No animals were harmed in the making of this article.

Is your current antivirus protection good enough? You can easily check on that using the ESET Online Scanner for free.