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Posted by Craig

A new form of malware is allegedly circulating that claims to have found illegal copyrighted material on your computer Its purpose is to exhort a "fine" from the computer user. See the link below for more information.
http://torrentfreak.com/malware-extort-cash-from-bittorrent-users-100411/

Posted by Virus Alert

An email has been circulated which claims to be a password reset from Facebook. This email contains an unknown zip file. Do not open it! Thanks

Posted by Craig

Over the next few months, I speculate that folks still using Internet Explorer 6 will begin seeing odd things happen as many web content organizations begin to discontinue support for IE 6.

Read about the Funeral

If you are still using IE 6 you should consider updating to IE 7 if your operating system permits.

Firefox is also a very nice browser, you can find a download link under our help section.

Posted by Craig

There is a new AVG 9 that is free. You can down load it from Download.com