Protection Center is part of the Your Protection family of rogues. This program pretends to be a legitimate anti-malware program, but instead uses false scan results and deceptive security alerts to ...

Over 300,000 new types of ransomware and other malicious software are discovered daily, according to the IT security research institute AV-TEST. Computer viruses can slow your devices, create a slew ...

Dianna Gunn built her first WordPress website in 2008. Since then, she's poured thousands of hours into understanding how websites and online businesses work. She's shared what she's learned on blogs ...

Microsoft Software Protection Platform allows the company to validate Microsoft services and ensure nobody tampers with Windows or any Microsoft software, including Office, OneDrive, and so on. The ...

The spammers. The scammers. And you. Telemarketers and junk mail has evolved in the digital age to a behemoth of persistent trickery. In Scammed, we help you navigate a connected world that’s out for ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. Anti-virus software has been around in its modern form since 1987, and, as Lifewire notes ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

In an era when malware is a looming threat to our computers, the appeal of antivirus software is obvious. But given the wide range of options, it’s tough to choose the one that provides the best ...

If you are running Microsoft Office but receiving an error message that says Microsoft Office cannot retain or find your license key and hence it is closing ...