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Blacklisting and Whitelisting: Color-Coding Security (E-Commerce Times)

For many businesses, keeping computers out of harm’s way is a full-time job. IT departments spend increasing amounts of resources keeping out the bad stuff or finding and removing it when malware does slip in from careless users or sloppy adherence to best practices. Viruses, spyware, Trojans and many more unwanted programs can cause serious damage to a computer, or an entire network.
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PC help: Spyware infections (Computer Active)

QI have started getting an annoying pop-up message on my computer about every five minutes telling me that my computer is at risk from virus and spyware. I also have a flashing red and blue shield on my taskbar.
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Asus warns of infected Eee Box PCs (Infomatics)

Asustek has issued an alert after a number of its Eee Box desktop PCs were found to contain malware. The company has informed Eee Box owners in Japan, although it is unclear whether machines in other parts of the world are affected.
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>Google confusion (Handbag.com)

I reprogrammed my computer weekend before last, all was hunky dorey, got spyware, specifically on google where I would be redirected to random websites including thigns such as eBay when I clicked onto Wikipedia for example.
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Asus warns of infected Eee Box PCs (VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

Asustek has issued an alert after a number of its Eee Box desktop PCs were found to contain malware.
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