pharmaceuticals and drugs on Internet

90% of advertisers offering medicines on the Bing search engine are unlicensed.

Various threats;29 August 2009

There is an image-eating worm that destroys pictures stored on a computer's hard disk.

An offer to see nude pictures of the Twilight actress Ashley green should be passed over,because it leads ro a compromised website.

A trojan horse targeted at macs can change the DNS(Domain name server) settings iof infected computers.

It poses as the Maccinema Installer and prompts you to install an update in order to view video files,it alters the DNS settings to redirect you to malware infected websites.

Emails purporting to be from the HM revenue and customs(HMRC) contains a pdf asking for your bank details.

Football ticket touters websites

Such sites are illegal because it is against the law to deter hooligans.

A lot of tickets are also fraudulent.

Lists of websites infected with malware

http://www.malwareurl.com has almost 19,000 infected websites listed

Norton also has a list of infected websites.

http://in.news.yahoo.com/139./20090820/854/ttc-the-top-100-most-dangerous-websites.html

Various threats;15 August 2009

Malware mentioning the Swine Flu has been circulating.

Called Novel H1N1 Flu Situation Update.exe,it arrives in emails and poses as a word document.
If opened, it installes a keylogger in your computer system.

Adobe flash has a flaw that can be exploited by hackers.

Apple has released a patch to protect its iphone operating system against a flaw.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht37544

African websites slowed by computer viruses

It is estimated that 80% of computers in Africa are infected by computer viruses,trojan horses etc etc.

In May, the congress of south african trade unions found its websites was spreading vuruses to its visitors.

Pirated software often comes with viruses installed.

Some reckoned that linux is a better operating system to prevent viruses entering computers.

Personally ,I might avoid african websites.