Showing posts with label security. Show all posts
Showing posts with label security. Show all posts

21 August 2009

Norton Safe Web presents the Dirtiest Web Sites of Summer 2009

Symantec’s Web site ratings service Norton Safe Web presents the Dirtiest Web Sites of Summer 2009 — the top 100 infected sites based on number of threats detected by Norton Safe Web as of August 2009.

Norton Safe Web analyzes sites using signature-based file scanning, intrusion detection engines, behavioral detection and install/uninstall analysis to identify security risks including phishing sites, malicious downloads, browser exploits and links to unsafe external sites. In other words – dirty stuff you don’t want on your computer!

27 November 2006

Internet Explorer 7 Proves Buggy Already

Internet Explorer 7 Proves Buggy Already

IE 7 is not a panacea, in part because it still ties in to Windows for some of its work and can therefore pass along threats from buggy parts of the operating system (or other programs). We've seen a number of these types of problems recently, and now three more have been reported.