Piriform just launched CCleaner Professional Plus: a 4-in-1 tool that includes popular editions of their software including the Professional versions of CCleaner, Defraggler, Recuva and Speccy.

We are sad to learn that a 36 year old man in Romania killed himself and his son because of a common computer virus. The type of virus is malware, or a cryptovirus categorized as ransomware that typically locks a computer system and uses a message that claims the computer owner or user violated the law and must pay a hefty fine or face a deprivation of liberty for viewing prohibited. In this case child pornography was the reason. In other cases the virus may claim that the user also violated the law by using copyrighted content or spreading malware.

The FBI tip page or line (https://tips.fbi.gov/) is a webpage that is monitored 24/7 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and is a webpage and form that the public can use to report suspected terrorism, criminal activity, and cyber crimes (internet crimes) including internet scams, computer viruses and malware, prohibited content (pornography, sensitive images), cyber harassment, cyber bulling, and more.

There’s a new flaw first reported 2 months ago in a Russian forum concerning your Skype account’s safety. To exploit this flaw, all the criminal would need to know is the victim’s email address tied to their Skype account.