Today’s Emphasis: Security

Malware is Evading Detection, Researchers Say

Several well-known products including PC Tools' Anti-Virus, Fortinet's Forticlient, and CA's Internet Security Suite, achieved detection levels below 50 percent when configured in their default mode.

XP, Vista, or Windows 7: Which OS is more secure?

In both previous installments, Vista had a significant edge edge over XP, with far fewer updates required. Has Vista maintained its security advantage over the past year? And are there any indications as to how Windows 7 will fare, now that it’s been released to manufacturing?

Social media is dead; film at 11

To hear some people tell it, social sites like Facebook and Twitter are on the wane. Robert Cringely thinks they're just getting warmed up

Last chance to get free Windows 7 test copy

You have less than 24 hours left to get Windows 7 Release Candidate. Download it now, set up a new partition on your hard drive and Win 7 will set up a dual boot for you.

Immunet releases free cloud-powered antivirus for Windows

The key advantages of Immunet? Less bloat, no massive, frequent pattern updates to download, and an added splash of community collaboration to thwart malicious software. It's also light on system resources, barely impacting CPU usage and sitting just under 32Mb of memory during a system scan.