Good news for all Facebook users. Social networking site whose popularity is growing shining will share internet security software free of charge.

This is thanks to the cooperation that has been woven pembesut Facebook with anti-virus, McAfee. McAfee anti-virus will be available to all Facebook members across the world, numbering around 350 million people.

The whole Facebook users can get Internet Security Software from McAfee Suite provided free of charge for six months, and thereafter will get a special discount to subscribe. However, no mention of how many special discounts are offered.

Security software is available in McAfee’s Facebook fan page. Besides Facebook McAfee also install software to identify the infected user’s computer, and then suggest the user to clean the computer before proceeding to access Facebook.

“By embracing McAfee, we made a step forward to make the Internet safer and minimize the threats that may terrorize our services,” said Elliot Schrage, Vice President of Global Communications, Marketing and Public Policy Facebook.

Indeed the current social networking sites like Facebook vulnerable to become coveted ‘ignorant hands’ of the virtual dedemit, for example, to send a virus attack, or spam messages (junk messages).

Con artists also use Facebook’s popularity to launch a phishing trap by making the user personal data.

Facebook announced, McAfee security software will be available initially for all members of Facebook in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, France, Canada, Mexico and Brazil. While for other countries will soon follow throughout the first quarter of this year.

Institution Investigation Federal Bureau of investigation (FBI), to investigate cyber attacks that hit the website of the Jews in the United States. Cracker attack could cripple the Jewish community of 3 websites, based in Colorado.

Crackers who call themselves Waja, make over sites where Jewish worship and called Bonai Shalom Har Hashem. Displayed anti-Jewish message in it, so that this case triggered the problem people.

One of the messages shown to equate the Jews with a terrorist organization. Jeff Finkelstein, who handles the site immediately reported the attack to local police.

It can take up to 5 hours to remove the principal message.

One attack has been detected coming from Mexico. But doubts Finkelstein actors really there. According to a cracker like to do tricks to fool the authorities.

These cyber attacks have been taken seriously. Besides the FBI, the Anti Demafation League institution established specifically to defend the Jews, was also investigated.

“Anti-Defamation League disturbed and angered by the anti-Jewish message posted at 3 community sites,” the statement from the Anti-Defamation League.

Experienced a car accident Tiger Woods curiosity lure Internet users the world. However, curiosity is also making the sender scareware took the opportunity to poison the web site search engine.

According to Symantec’s security agencies, accident Woods has made a solid Internet traffic, became one of the top ranking in Google search since the news spread.

Symantec observed some search results by search engine that directs users to a malicious domain. Ie to sites which address curemypc-vir-now.com, egafuki.cn and online-scanner-free.net.

The site then directs users to a fake scanning process before issuing a series of notifications and the threat of serious error that was suggested to be cleaned from a user’s computer.

But what really happens is that the threat is false, and users unknowingly directed to purchase antivirus software that will invalidate can retrieve personal information for fraudulent activity.

Hon Lau on Symantec Response blog says, from the perspective of IT security, unfortunate incidents like this is one form of malware makers attempt to achieve profitability.

“Not surprisingly, the creator of the antivirus software is false or misleading applications have been integrated in a large community and trying to poison search results by Internet search engines for profit website, amid the increasing search activities,”.

You wouldn’t necessarily expect it, but Avast and Google Chrome might be the next peanut butter-and-jelly combo in the software world. Google’s nascent browser has paired with one of the most popular free security programs in the world so that when users run the Avast installer on a computer that has neither Chrome nor Avast, they’ll be offered a chance to install Chrome simultaneously. This is the first such bundling for Avast in its 21-year existence.

The Chrome option in the Avast installer does two things differently from the more familiar opt-out user experience that many programs provide in an installer in exchange for financial sponsorship. For one thing, the Chrome window only turns up if you don’t already have it installed, but more importantly, it forces users to actively choose installation. Neither the “yes, install” nor the “no, don’t install” radio buttons are checked by default. Of course, users are forced to check off “no” if they don’t want it, but this should dramatically cut down on the incidence of accidental installations that tend to plague otherwise-similar piggybacking installs.

The Avast/Chrome combo may strike some as an odd couple, or at least more beneficial for Avast than for Chrome, but keep in mind that Avast has more than double the users that Chrome does. Google’s Vice President of Product Management Sundar Pichai said Chrome had more than 40 million users at the Chrome OS press conference at the end of October, and the end of November saw NetApplications peg Chrome at 3.93 percent of the browser market, a 0.35 percentage point increase. Meanwhile, on Avast’s Web site, the Czech Republic-based security vendor is preparing to fly its 100 millionth user to Prague on an expenses-paid trip.

A Google spokesman indicated that other deals might be in the works. “Users’ response to Google Chrome has been outstanding, and we’re continuing to explore ways to make Chrome accessible to even more people. This could potentially include distribution via a number of channels, such as the distribution we are currently doing with Avast.”

Spam emails are entered into not always contain advertising. Because, apparently, too many malware programs that infiltrate through the promotion of these undesirable.

Based on Symantec report Messaging & Web Security in October 2009 alone for example, an average of 1.9% of all spam messages circulating on the Internet contain malware.

This is equal to an increase of 0.6% from September 2009 which was the number of messages containing malware touched the highest figure of 4.5% of the total spam.

Symantec assess that the increase in malware that infiltrate this spam invasion fairly significant, when considering that 87% of all email messages in the month of October 2009 was spam.

One of the spam email is more interesting with the insertion of malware in it are spam disguised as a notification / notification from Facebook that the recipient’s password has been reset. The message is stored in a zip file inserts containing dangerous exe files.

Symantec detects it as an exe file Trojan.Bredolab. Bredolab variant is linked to a domain in Russia and the infected machine will likely be part of the botnet Bredolab.