Thieves Find Easy Pickings on Social Sites

Rob Newland is a pro at dodging spam e-mails and suspicious pop-up windows as he surfs the Web.

But he lets his guard down when he is checking friends' profiles and clicking through blog posts on the social networking Web site MySpace.

Read the article HERE. [at washingtonpost.com]

Test your Pop-up blocker

I often link to Brian Krebs on Computer Security [Security Fix], also at washingtonpost.com, especially on "Patch Tuesday", when Brian gives an excellent report on what you are downloading - and why.

But the pop up can be annoying.

Does your pop-up blocking software work? Not all pop-up windows are created equally; some are intrusive and annoying and some are actually necessary. Not all pop-up blocking software is created equally.

Test your software at Kephyr.com or Webroot