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Kindly note that our tips and tricks section will no longer be maintained (but will still be available for future reference). All new tips and tricks will now be published on a website dedicated to free computer tips and tricks. Visit www.nicetoknow.co.za for more information.

It is really important to us to receive spam reports as attachments. This makes our spam investigations much more effective and easier, so we would like to remind everyone who wishes to report spam to us, to forward those e-mails as attachments. Our online spam reporting form is still available, but we recommend its use only in cases where it is not possible for forward the spam e-mail as an attachment.

We would like to warn our visitors about the latest phishing scam trend involving very legitimate looking e-mails containing an HTML attachment that redirects to the actual phishing site. This method seems to be very effective and a lot of people are tricked by this. Review the comments section of this scam example and make sure you apply these hints to every e-mail that appears to be from your bank to distinguish the fake e-mails from the real ones. Feel free to contact us if you have doubts about the legitimacy of an e-mail that your received.

It seems like the SHPAMEE feed was not updating correctly. This issue has now been resolved. Please let us know if you are still experiencing problems with the SHPAMEE feed.

Due to a sharp increase in malware related spam, we urge everyone to make sure that their computers are adequately protected against malware attacks. If you don't have protection against malware, we strongly suggest an Internet Security suite. Feel free to contact us if you need any information about malware protection. You might also want for check out the latest examples of malware spam e-mails.

Important information about this scammer came to light during our investigation. We have published a reply from the scammer in the comments section of the example to illustrate the mechanics of this specific scam.

419 scams are on the rise again. We have published 11 new 419 scams on our site. Remember to subscribe to our RSS feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/shpamee) if you are not already a subscriber of the SHPAMEE Project.

avast! Internet Security just continues to impress us. We did a quick overview of this popular security suite by highlighting its most prominent features.

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In the last couple of weeks we have been reviewing some parental control and monitoring software and PC Pandora came out tops. PC Pandora is really an impressive monitoring program, read our review to see why.

We've been quite busy with reviews lately. Today we take an in depth look into another interesting spam filter called MailWasher Pro. If you are looking for a way to deal with spam, it is really worth checking out.

SPAMfighter Pro is a great community based effort for combating spam. It also feels great to know that you are not only filtering your own spam, but you are also part of a combined effort to battle the ever increasing problem of spam. Read our review of this highly recommended spam filter.

Read our review of this impressive, lightning fast Internet Security suite.

It came to our attention that our malware sample reporting form was rejecting submissions for quite some time now. The problem has been resolved and members of the public may once again use this form to submit malware samples to us. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.

I had the privilege of taking a closer look at Agnitum's Internet Security Suite called Outpost Security Suite Pro. This security suite has quite a lot under the hood so there are plenty of things to discuss. Please note that version 7.5.2 will be released soon, so I will update my review where necessary when the latest version is released.

We would like to announce that we are back on track. And we kick off with a review of Kaspersky Internet Security.

Read our latest review of the popular internet security suite, Kaspersky Internet Security 2010.

The SHPAMEE Project has been updated with new examples. For those who haven't noticed yet, we have a separate feed for updates to this project: http://feeds.feedburner.com/shpamee

Today marks the launch of a new educational initiative called the SHPAMEE project. Read more about it on the Cyber Top Cops blog

Outpost Security Suite Pro is an Internet Security Suite with a lot of potential and innovative features. For an in-depth look into the pros and cons of this security suite, read our latest security software review.

With the launch of Google Talk's new Chatback feature earlier this year and due to certain unresolved issues with ChatStat, we decided to switch back to Google Talk for our Live Online Priority Support Service.

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New reviews have been added to our Reviews section. These are: AVG Anti-Virus + Firewall, AVG Anti-Malware and Kaspersky Anti-Virus. These reviews are not in depth reviews like the reviews done on the Internet Security products, they only give the user a basic overview of the differences between these products and the more comprehensive versions that's available.

Over 45 new examples of hoaxes, scams and spam e-mails have been published today.

A lot of malware related improvements have been made to our site. We simplified our Malware Removal Guide, added a new Online Malware Scanners page and expanded our malware reporting services by adding a page that can be used to submit the URLs of malicious websites to us.

Live Online Priority Support is now powered by ChatStat. You no longer have to download Google Talk or any other chat software to receive priority support from us. You can chat directly to us from our website via the ChatStat system.

We have listed our RSS feeds on separate page for easy access and subscription to all our feeds. The page also includes easy-to-follow instructions for those who are not familiar with the methods of subscribing to RSS feeds.

Read our review of what may be regarded as one of the best Internet Security suites of all time.