INTERNET SECURITY SUITE NORTON 360

NORTON 360

                                     





VERDICT: An excellent all-round security suite that’s worth every penny.
FOR: Feature rich, excellent scanner and firewall, low on system resources, well
detailed interface.
AGAINST: None.


Norton security products have been on a roll ever since Symantec redesigned

everything from the coding to the overall interface back in 2007. The program itself has many tweaks under the hood and offers protection like no other. Moreover, Symantec has maintained two different full-bodied products tocater to different individuals; from the tech-savvy to the novice. While Norton Internet Security (NIS) is aimed at advanced users, Norton 360 comes fine-tuned with all the latest features that NIS 2010 has, and it also includes backup features along with PC tune-up options.

Facebook "likejacking" scams trick thousands of users

Hundreds of thousands of Facebook users are
falling for various scams being perpetrated
because of the social networking giant's new
"Like" APIs that allow members to "like" any
participating Website or any subpage of it.
The simple basis of the scam is a
script that interprets clicks on any part
of a Webpage into clicks on a particular
hidden link, i.e. one that triggers the "like"
functionality and thereby posts to that

person's wall and spams all his/her friends' local news incidents, and global events such
news feeds. The pages have funny titles such
as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and of
as "Funniest passport rejection ever", "The course the promise of pornography.
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Facebook users will have to manually
From School." and "This Girl Has An remove these posts from their walls, delete
Interesting Way Of Eating A Banana, Check It any unintentionally "liked" pages from the
Out!" Other things used to tempt users into Likes and Interests section on their profiles,
clicking are references to popular movies,

MSN account hacking gambit puts users at greater risk

A mass mail invitation to a suspicious “do-it-yourself”
account hacking session puts Windows Live Messenger
users at risk, according to BitDefender. Interestingly, the
initial spam emails that promise this hacking advice try to
use reverse psychology and convince users not to use their
newfound knowledge on others. According to the email,
this tool is allegedly intended for “he use of owners to
hack their own MSN accounts” and for “forensic scientists”.

MSN account hacking gambit puts users at greater risk