Some of Win7’s best timesavers are staring you right in the face on your keyboard, particularly via the previously underutilized Windows key. You probably already know that pressing the Windows key (Win) opens the Start menu. But now, holding the Win key in combination with other keys does a lot more.

Win7’s Windows-key combinations speed up [...]

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center issued a warning over fake antivirus software Friday, saying that Web surfers should be wary of sudden pop-up windows that report security problems on their computers. This software can appear almost anywhere on the Web.

Typically, the scam starts with an aggressive pop-up advertisement that looks like some sort of [...]

What do phishing, instant messaging malware, DDoS attacks, and 419 scams have in common? According to Cisco Systems, they’re all has-been cybercrimes that were supplanted by slicker, more menacing forms of cybercrime over the past year.

In its 2009 Annual Security Report, Cisco says that the smart cybercriminals are moving on. [...]

Windows 7 has grabbed more than 4 percent of the real-world usage base as tracked by InfoWorld’s Windows Pulse service — after only a few weeks of general availability.

Windows 7 is grabbing a sizable chunk of new users. Fully 10 percent of the most recent registrants are running some version of Windows 7, which [...]