In my younger years, Limewire was “the next Napster”. It was easily one of the top P2P file-sharing services next to the likes of Morpheus and ShareBear to name a few (ah, the memories). But this past October, those childhood memories came to an end when major music labels finally brought down Limewire’s p2p business. Though in all honestly, over the last half a decade, Limewire had become less of a serious place to find music and more of a one-stop...

In our daily travels through the interwebbs, our computers are silently attacked by faceless villains across the world. Helping us make the journey safely are a bevy of anti-virus, anti-spyware, and anti-malware programs. But every once in a while, a computer becomes unusable not because of the latest and greatest virus, but because of the very software that is supposed to protect us. With that said, users of popular anti-virus software, AVG, will be waking up to a...

For all of the bitching that people partake of concerning various flips and flops in the tech world, we rarely hear of a follow-up as to what the company in question is doing to things right. Last week, McAfee had a bad week. An update was somehow cleared for public consumption packing a nasty bug — it incorrectly identified svchost.exe (a critical windows process) as a virus, thus deleting it and causing a repeating boot loop. Uh-oh… The update was quickly...

While I may run a Mac as my primary computer, I still deal with Windows machines on a daily basis. Because of that, I can never become complacent or comfortable with simply not caring about viruses. Doing so and still spending a considerable amount of time inside of the Windows environment can only end badly for not only me, but those who communicate with me as well. As we all know, much like human viruses, computer viruses can spread just as well, often taking out...

Somehow I don’t think this is exactly what Energizer had in mind… Users of Energizer’s USB DUO Battery Charger are going to want to sever all connections to their computers ASAP. According to the US-CERT (United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team), USB DUO installs a silent yet rather nasty trojan virus that effectively turns your PC into a bot, allowing outsiders access to your PC and digital belongings, and ultimately, gives them total...