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A happy Easter weekend turned into a Tweeter's nightmare, when many users reported strange activity on their Twitter accounts, including unsolicited tweets, profile changes and weird code appearing at the top of their homepage. Many users feared the worst and a large number of 'infected' users changed their passwords and logged out of their accounts, in an attempt to avoid infection.

Filefront, a popular computer game download service that provides patches, demos, modifications and other user generated content, is not doing so well in the current economic situation and have decided to call it a day. It was first launched in December 2001 and, to this date, holds roughly 1.5 million files totalling 48+ terabytes.

On March 9, 2009 some users of Norton AntiVirus started experiencing a firewall warning that a Norton-associated file called "PIFTS.exe" was trying to connect to the Internet. Although this file was later revealed to be a harmless diagnostic patch the program quickly gained attention in the media when Norton systematically deleted any posts from their forum related to the program.

A list of the most useful, popular and helpful WordPress plugins from 2008, most of which are used on this blog. If you've recently installed WordPress and you're looking for some plugins to make your blogging life easier, I'd recommend these. WordPress is an open source blog publishing application, and also what powers this blog.

Some of the best free Windows software to keep you on top of your daily tasks, with style. It's not long until you're going to need a new web browser, disk utilities, anti-virus software or media player on your brand-spanking-new Windows installation. Even if you don't need anything, you might just find something really cool to replace your boring Windows Media Player.

In order to help you stay ahead of the curve, and out of harm's way, we gathered five tips to avoid phishing scams from leading computer security experts. Phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.

The Witcher is a computer role-playing game for the PC developed by CD Projekt RED STUDIO and published by CD Projekt in Poland and Atari for the rest of the world. The game is based on the book series of the same name by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. The game utilizes BioWare's proprietary Aurora Engine and was released in Europe and North America in October 2007.

An explanation of what can be classed as criminal activities on the Internet. Online criminals are getting bolder and more daring in their attempts to steal data and money because there are no concrete laws that govern cyber crime. If global laws were to be written to govern cyber crime, we'd see a great decrease in the number of scams and potential phishing attempts on the Internet.