Today has been designated as Password Day and to celebrate the occasion McAfee and its parent company Intel want everyone to change their password, and offer tips on making strong passwords. More...
McAfee has patented technology to detect and block pirated content within a web browser, impeding access to sites that infringe copyrights and redirecting users to approved content sources instead. More...
McAfee Labs has discovered that the United States is the country with the most active botnet command servers, coming in a whopping 631 and beating other contenders by quite a margin More...
The life of the rich and eccentric McAfee software company founder John McAfee will now be the subject of two movies; one authorized by McAfee and the other based on a Wired magazine article. More...
In its annual predictions of new PC and malware threats, McAfee says that it sees a "rapid development" of attacks centered on Windows 8 in 2013, along with other threats. More...
McAfee founder John McAfee is now back in the US after being kicked out of Guatemala Wednesday night and now says he played the "crazy card" in order to get the media to notice his issue with Belize. More...
Do you think McAfee's life on the run would make for a good movie? You're not alone! The rights to his life have been purchased by a studio and we expect to see the film in a theater near you. More...
McAfee antivirus company founder John McAfee now admits he wants to return to his native United States, a few days after he was arrested in Guatemala. He could still be moved to Belize. More...
McAfee antivirus company founder John McAfee may have suffered from a heart attack in Guatemala, where he was in jail awaiting possible deportation to Belize to answer questions in a murder case. More...
In what seems like almost daily new twists in the John McAfee saga where he is being sought for questioning by the Belize government over a murder inquiry, now an alibi video has been posted online. More...
John McAfee, the eccentric founder of the McAfee antivirus company, has admitted he is now in Guatemala after escaping from the country of Belize where the police want to question him in a murder case More...
Has John McAfee finally been found after allegedly murdering his neighbor last month? According to his official blog, the answer is yes. More...
McAfee antivirus creator John McAfee is wanted in the Central American country of Belize in connection with the shooting of a builder on Saturday night, following recent history of being... well, odd. More...
With the PC sales slowing in anticipation of the arrival of Windows 8 at the end of the month, McAfee have announced that a number of their 7000 employees will be laid off. More...
Emma Watson is best known for her role in the "Harry Potter" series of films; but now McAfee has found that she's (unwillingly) much more likely to lure unwitting interwebs surfers to download malware More...
A new report on malware threats by security software company McAfee claims that the level of PC malware for the first quarter of 2012 is the highest in the last four years. More...
In a whacky turn of events, anti-virus pioneer John McAfee has been arrested in a SWAT-style raid in Belize on charges of drug manufacturing and possession of illegal weapons, claims he calls 'bogus.' More...
Worried about the recent Flashback botnet infections running on MacOS? McAfee hooked us up with three free copies of Internet Security 2012 to help protect our readers from the dangerous Internet. More...
A new report from McAfee Labs predicts the kinds of cyber attacks and threats that PC owners, along with mobile users, will have to deal with in the next 12 months, including Windows 8 More...
A new study by anti-virus company McAfee claims that Google's Android operating system is the one that is under attack the most by malware creators, surpassing Nokia's Symbian OS. More...
McAfee has announced it has launched a new security software app for iOS devices, the WaveSecure, that's designed to keep those devices secure from data loss as well as theft. More...
McAfee has uncovered a five-year hacking campaign affecting governments and organisations around the world. The evidence appears to point to one culprit - and for once, Anonymous may not be to blame. More...
With computer security on the minds of more people lately due to an increase in high profile cyber attacks, PC processor maker Intel is preparing to reveal details of a new kind of security technology... More...
A report by security firm McAfee has revealed some rather worrying trends in recent years of the increasing volume of cyber attacks that are occurring in the oil and gas sector. Through good old fashioned... More...
This morning, Intel announced in a press release that they will be purchasing the computer security giant McAfee to the tune of $7.68 billion. According the release, Intel wants to integrate security as part of... More...
Neowin reported just last week that McAfee had released a bad antivirus definition update that was causing major issues with users computers. The update was causing Windows XP SP3 clients to be locked out... More...
Widespread reports are hitting the web that McAfee Antivirus update is causing major issues with end users PC’s. Reports are coming in that the “update to Dat 5958” is killing SVCHOST.exe. As reports are surfacing... More...
Computerworld is reporting that two women are suing anti-virus creator McAfee for duping them into buying a third party application through a pop up ad. Apparently after you purchase McAfee's software you are presented with a... More...
Today, Internet service provider Comcast announced that it will be switching from McAfee anti-virus to Symantec's Norton Security Suite. The switch from McAfee to Norton will benefit Norton, Comcast and its 15.7 million customers. The deal... More...
Verizon has announced that they will begin offering an improved version of their internet security suite to their FiOS and High Speed Internet customers based on McAfee technology. "Our award-winning Internet security suite now becomes even... More...
Traditional anti-virus tools have become an outdated way of responding to today's threats, according to security giant McAfee. McAfee built its security empire on signature-based anti-virus products. However, Chris Kenworthy, senior vice president for enterprise... More...
More than 35 thousand readers of the German magazine PC Praxis have named Kaspersky Internet Security “Product of the Year” under the category of “IT security”. This year is the first time Kaspersky Lab’s Internet... More...
If there isn't already enough bad news going around about Windows Vista then this takes the cake. According to InfoWorld, Hackers have been ignoring Vista due to its small market share! "Most of the current... More...
Security firm McAfee has released a new report warning of the ever-present threat of typo-squatting. The report highlights the number of website squatters registering domains using common misspellings of popular brands, products and celebrities in... More...
McAfee has agreed to acquire encryption expert SafeBoot for $350m in cash. SafeBoot markets data protection software that uses encryption and access protection. The technology primarily targets mobile computers. The privately held firm is based... More...
AOL has quietly stopped offering its free Active Virus Shield software in favor of a competing alternative from vendor McAfee. The free anti-virus software, based on technology from Kaspersky Lab, had been available for the... More...
McAfee Rootkit Detective Beta is a program designed and developed by McAfee Avert Labs to proactively detect and clean rootkits that are running on the system. McAfee Rootkit Detective should only be used by knowledgeable... More...
A Windows feature designed to simplify computing for disabled users could be misused in Vista, a McAfee researcher reported Monday. Attackers could use this feature, called StickyKeys, to trick a user into launching unauthorized software... More...
As McAfee's antivirus cash cow becomes commoditized, the security vendor has been giving itself a security risk management makeover. Now channel partners are being encouraged to get up to speed on selling the vendor's more... More...
People who use both IBM Lotus Notes and McAfee VirusScan Enterprise may want to hold off on upgrading to the latest version of the McAfee software. Installing McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.5i on a PC that... More...
McAfee Rootkit Detective Beta is a program designed and developed by McAfee Avert Labs to proactively detect and clean rootkits that are running on the system. McAfee Rootkit Detective should only be used by knowledgeable... More...
IT security firm Sophos is recommending that system administrators ask their security vendors if they are capable of properly protecting them on the forthcoming 64-bit version of Vista, as arguments continue regarding access to Microsoft's... More...
Security vendor Deep Nines on Wednesday filed a patent violation lawsuit against McAfee over a unified threat management technology used in the design of security appliances. Deep Nines claims to own a patent for a... More...
McAfee announced today an all-in-one security subscription service codenamed Falcon. Falcon will contain all major security suite components as well as PC backup and tune-up tools. It's essentially a competitor to Microsoft's Windows OneCare, expected... More...
McAfee today launched a jazzed-up Web site with a new online portal designed to help users research a wide range of security problems. Called the McAfee Threat Center, the portal was launched as part of... More...
In June, Microsoft is expected to launch Windows OneCare Live, which is the company's long-anticipated entry into the consumer antivirus space. The company plans to charge $49.95 a year to shield up to three PCs... More...
Anti-virus security specialist McAfee has wasted no time gobbling up SiteAdvisor, a 1-year-old startup that rates the Web to determine if a site's content includes spyware, spam, viruses, browser-based exploits or online scams. McAfee announced... More...
Due to a botched update, some McAfee Anti-virus users have been informed that Microsoft Excel, a very popular spreadsheet program, is in-fact a virus. For a while on Friday 10th March, Excel was... More...
All home Wi-Fi gear comes with the bricks and mortar to put up at least a basic security wall against intruders and eavesdroppers, but McAfee wants to sell consumers a better trowel for building it.... More...
Citing the rapid adoption of Linux in the enterprise, security software company McAfee Inc. is broadening the reach of its Entercept host intrusion prevention technology to the Linux platform. The company's Entercept for Linux release... More...