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1 Billion Spam Caught

Dear Glenn:
On Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 06:20 (GMT), Project Honey Pot achieved a milestone: receiving its 1 billionth spam message. The billionth message was an United States Internal Revenue Service phishing scam sent to an email address that had been harvested more than two years ago. More than just a single spam email, the [...]

Free or Paid? Antivirus choices

In the below quoted article on the Avira website the free antivirus software publisher attempts to debunk claims by Symantec that free alternatives provide insufficient protection (we do encourage you to purchase “full” editions of outstanding software like Avast! but you should not be misled about the value of “free” versions.)
We restore the article here [...]

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