The software updates made available today serve to fix issues with slow updates (which caused 'SSL Download failed' errors), program crashes at Windows startup scans and a few smaller bugs. The software update also includes a new version of the Update Manager.

The software version number remains at 7.0.2.6 as this update does not contain any major feature additions.

Information about updates is also available in this thread in the Lavasoft Support Forums.

These days, it seems there's a social networking site for anyone and everyone - from small niche followings to the larger, ever-growing online communities.

This open environment for sharing information, the foundation of web-based networks, is the perfect backdrop for all kinds of online threats.

Here at Lavasoft, we constantly come across websites that are trying to piggy back on our name, in order to try to scam people into buying the "product" they're selling. The following is just one example of how scammers will try to take advantage of you.

We know that a major contributor to rising spam levels is botnets - networks of compromised computers. According to industry findings, however, only a handful of botnets were responsible for the majority of spam sent in February. Six botnets spewed out 85 percent of all spam last month, the first time so few botnets were found to be responsible for so much spam, a Marshal report says.