Erik Larkin - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Erik Larkin

Article | 30/08/2008 Quick fix for Firefox 3 bug with Yahoo Mail

If you use Firefox 3 and Yahoo Mail (the nice new interface, not Classic), you might be dealing with a bug I've noticed where the message pane scrollb...

Article | 1/09/2008 Build your own free security suite

Do-it-all suites are the name of the security game these days. Sure, you can gather free programs that cover the bases much as a suite would, but who ...

Article | 28/08/2008 Olympic Gold Medalist Gives Props to Google Earth

Google got some serious gold, promotion-wise: US Olympic cyclist and Gold Medalist Kristin Armstrong wrote that Google Earth was "invaluable" in helpi...

Article | 6/08/2008 10 quick fixes for the worst security nightmares

In the world of comic books, every bad guy is an evil genius. On the Web, hackers, spammers, and phishers may be evil, but they're not required to be ...

Article | 30/07/2008 New browsers fight the malware scourge

The latest browsers are fighting back against the never-ending assault from online crooks who want to sneak malware infections through your browser an...

Article | 29/07/2008 Make money with Google's Wikipedia-killer

If you're looking for a way to start writing for money, Google's so-called Wikipedia-killer offers a new option.

Article | 18/07/2008 Have You Fixed Your Company's DNS Servers?

Security researcher Dan Kaminsky announced last week that a major bug affected DNS software, which translates human-usable domain names like "pcworld....

Article | 17/07/2008 Major Sites Fall Victim to Web Hijack

Security company Finjan Wednesday reported it has found more than 1,000 sites infected by an attack toolkit called "Asprox," which exploits discovered...

Article | 27/06/2008 Coming: A change in tactics in malware battle

As a vast flood of new malware threatens to overwhelm antivirus software, security companies have begun changing how their programs protect PCs. To av...

Article | 25/06/2008 Lavasoft Ad-Aware 2008 Free

The new version of Lavasoft's flagship antispyware application, Ad-Aware 2008 Free, aims to supplement your existing antivirus protection by detecting...

Article | 20/06/2008 Search wars: Yahoo, Google inch up in May, Microsoft slides

More bad news for Microsoft after the Yahoo deal breakdown: according to comScore's analysis of May search traffic, Redmond's share of the search mark...

Article | 10/06/2008 Stay connected with remote-access software

The workday doesn't end at 5 p.m. anymore. Chances are, you take files home with you to work on using your home PC, and then you tote them back to you...

Article | 2/06/2008 Web 2.0 sites a thriving marketplace for malware

A wiry young man with his head shaved and wearing a tank top points a handgun straight at the camera in a disturbing YouTube video. The man wears what...

Article | 27/05/2008 New TimesMachine from the Gray Lady

An aptly named "TimesMachine" from The New York Times offers up online images of historic newspapers from the 1850s through the 1920s. You can view sa...

Article | 13/05/2008 PC Tools ThreatFire 3.5 Antivirus Software

Your current antivirus program may offer plenty of protection, but new, unknown threats still could slip through. That's where PC Tools' ThreatFire co...