There are 300 million active users on social website Facebook which makes prime picking for an email scam. The latest one that seems to be doing its rounds is a fake email with the subject: Facebook Password Reset Confirmation.

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Recently I posted about the free software called Microsoft Security Essentials (available to download from here) and how I have been testing it for a couple of days.

I still have it installed and have been running scans every couple of days. The Security Essentials software has been downloading updates regularly from Microsoft, which is a good thing.

A recent article published on windowsecurity.com asks Does it have a Place in the Business World? The article provides some advantages and disadvantages for business use that I recommend taking into consideration if you are ever thinking of using it.

Personally I believe it can have its place it the business world however, I don’t believe it should be used to replace your current anti-virus software but more to be used as an extra software tool for battling against an infected computer. Is it too basic for enterprise level businesses? probably.

For now I’m going to keep Microsoft Security Essentials installed alongside my other security products just to see how things go.

Microsoft has recently released a free ant-virus application called Microsoft Security Essentials. The good thing about Microsoft Security Essentials is that it’s 100% free and will work on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7.

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It’s always useful to have a range of tools to fight against a computer virus. Anti-virus software is not sufficient when dealing with an active virus on the computer. It’s always a good idea to have a range of PC tools that can help fight against a computer virus so here is a list of 8 online virus scanners to use when dealing with a nasty computer virus.

• BitDefender Online Scanner
• ESET Online Scanner
• F-Secure Online Scanner
• Kaspersky Virus Scanner
• McAfee FreeScan
• Microsoft Live Online
• Norton Security Scan
• Trend Micro HouseCall

Open the links and bookmark them for future use.

Last month the IT industry braced themselves against a large internet virus attack that was to activate on 1st April 2009 but as most internet security experts predicated it wasn’t going to be a dooms day virus as media outlets portrayed it to be.  Instead, when April 1st arrived no major disaster occurred from the Conficker virus and as some major security companies reported, nothing happened.

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