According to MX Lab the security company, a fresh e-mail scam is doing the rounds as it unleashes spam mails that pretend to offer gifts the e-mail recipients' friends supposedly sent.

According to a recent warning by the Korean Communications Commission on its Internet site, computer operators must boot their systems while taking them to safe mode for defense from malware contamination, which can damage their PCs' stored data as well as block anti-malware software from getting loaded. Bloomberg published this on March 6, 2011.

Security Company Fortinet's list of ten most prevalent malicious programs within its Threat Landscape Report found the entry of the SpyEye network of bots like never before during February 2011, suggesting that cyber-crime gangs across the globe probably shifted from the use of the Zeus botnet.

Trading standards officials of London-based Wandsworth Trading Council are urging the public that they should remain watchful and not trust e-mails that contain false telephone numbers, fake photographs or still further fake certificates.