Flame was arguably the next big thing in the state sponsored malware section after Stuxnet. As we had previously reported, Flame is a malware that was used to infect computers in the Middle East for espionage purposes.

A well known group of hackers in Germany discovered and tested a trojan program that’s used by the German Federal government to spy on its citizens. Do you need to worry – even if you don’t live there?

As if the various Osama Bin Laden video scams on Facebook were not enough, a new malware is being spread through emails now. If you receive any emails with an attachment named Fotos_Osama_Bin_Laden.zip or something similar, DO NOT OPEN IT.

Your Facebook wall may be a treasure trove of potential infections that could jump onto your PC or spread to your friends. A new Facebook app could help you prevent problems.

Symantec warns of fake alerts, fake security updates and new fake anti-spyware. That’s just the beginning – it gets worse.

Another distress help call came to us through the contact us form asking us about a weird task running on a user’s computer. The task in question is called TeaTimer.exe and has been running on the user’s computer.

One of our readers recently saw a suspicious file that was running on their system called GoogleCrashHandler.exe, and asked us what that file was and whether it was a virus or Spyware?