If you receive a phone call from someone who claims to be from Microsoft and says that your computer has a virus, hang up. This call is probably from a cybercriminal who wants to charge you for a bogus service or trick you into installing malicious...

For the third and last installment in our series on how to stay safer when you shop online this holiday season, we have a few tips on what to do if you think you might already be a victim of a shopping scam . Check your statements. If you think you...

Your best friend from high school is probably not a cat burglar. But do you know everyone on your friends’ and followers’ lists (or everyone on their lists) on your social networking sites? If not, don’t post information about your holiday...

Last week we gave you three tips to help protect yourself when you shop online. Here are three more tips to help keep cybercriminals from ruining your holiday. Never make online financial transactions on a public or shared computer. Public computers...

Whether you start your holiday shopping on Black Friday, Cyber Monday, or right now, here are three tips to help you avoid scams and fraudulent websites when you buy gifts online. This is part one in a three part series. Read part two and part three...

We recently received this question from a reader of this blog: “Hi! I am running Windows 7 with Windows Defender. Why does the Action Center say that I don’t have antivirus protection?” Windows Defender comes with Windows 7 and...

Microsoft releases security updates on the second Tuesday of every month. Today Microsoft released 4 security updates for Microsoft Windows. Get the updates . Watch a video about the updates . To get more information about security updates and...

Today the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) posted details about the November security updates . On Tuesday, November 8, 2011, at approximately 10 AM Pacific Time, Microsoft will release 4 bulletins. The easiest way to get security updates...

Last week a member of our team shared a phishing scam that she’d received in her personal email account. The bogus email claims to come from Microsoft and asks the recipient to respond to the email with their user name and password to avoid permanent...