When you use Internet Explorer 8 and Internet Explorer 7 you can help protect your computer from viruses , spyware , and other malicious software by surfing the Web in Protected Mode. Protected Mode is always automatically active. You can check your...

The Security Intelligence Report (SIR) is a comprehensive study of malicious software that Microsoft releases twice a year. The latest report is Volume 8 (SIR v8) and covers analysis from September 2009–March 2010. SIR v8 shows that the nature of...

Support for Windows Vista without any service packs ends today, April 13, 2010. If your computer is running Windows Vista without Service Pack 2, you won't get security updates for Windows. This means that your computer will be at risk for viruses...

Microsoft releases security updates on the second Tuesday of every month. Today Microsoft released 8 new security updates for Microsoft Windows and 2 new security updates for Microsoft Office and 1 new update for Microsoft Exchange Server. Get the...

If you read this blog, you probably have at least a passing interest in learning about online safety or teaching others about it. Whether you’re an IT professional, a teacher, a parent, or just someone who happens to know a lot about cybersecurity, the...

If you’ve ever seen suspicious pop-up ads with urgent warnings to download security software, you’re not alone. According to the most recent Microsoft Security Intelligence Report , fake security software (also known as rogue security software ) is the...

If you want to keep up with the very latest information about Microsoft’s response to emerging security issues, you can now follow the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) on Twitter. The address is http://twitter.com/msftsecresponse . If you...

Screen scraping is the act of taking all the information that a person has posted on their Web site or social networking page and then using the information to break into the user’s account or to commit some other fraud involving identity theft . Social...

Security essentials 2010 is the latest fake security software to use the Microsoft name to spread malware instead of to help protect against it. Security essentials 2010 is a form of rogue security software that cybercriminals use to trick people into...

Most Internet users have probably seen e-mail scams that include promises of large amounts of money in return for a small initial payment. This is called advanced fee fraud , and every year, victims lose money to this scam and often inadvertently turn...