Antivirus Advice - advices to keep your computer safe

Do you really need administrator privileges?
Los Angeles security firm BeyondTrust has released an analysis of Microsoft’s 75 security bulletins last year. They came to the startling conclusion that if users had operated their computers without administrative rights they would have eliminated 64 percent of their risk from Microsoft vulnerabilities!
By examining all of the published Microsoft
[continue reading...]

Introduction
In our regular security articles, we have several times pointed out that security vulnerabilities and exploits are not restricted to “traditional” computers. We have predicted that several of the devices that our daily lives are filled with, may be exploited in the (near) future.
See for example our articles

Hot stuff: Exploitable routers – a flash of the whole
[continue reading...]