Thirteen Year Old Megan Meier Commits Suicide after Cyber Bullying and Online Emotional Attack by Classmate’s Parents Posing as Child (This article has 2 comments)
Thirteen year old Megan Meier committed suicide after being intentionally befriended and then dumped by someone she believed to be a new online friend named Josh Evans. In reality, Josh Evans - who said he was new to the neighborhood - turned out to be a MySpace account created by the mother of a schoolmate of Megan's. Megan and the child had once been friends.

The Wearing of the Green - IE7 Shows You the Green for Sites Certified as “Not Phishing” (This article has 1 comment)
Wondering why your address bar (the URL bar - where you type the web address you want to visit) has turned green? Why you're looking at a pop-up that says "Website Identification - VeriSign has identified this site as:" and "Should I trust this site?"?

Dozens of Super Bowl Websites Hacked and Installing Trojan Backdoors on Windows Computers of Football Fans (comments)
The Superbowl Trojan, as some are calling it, has been implanted on dozens of Super Bowl related websites, and is installing itself on any Windows computer that happens to visit any of the Super Bowl sites without adequate protection. The Super Bowl Trojan allows the hacker to take full control over any of these infected Windows PCs by connecting the machine to dv521.com, downloading the W1C.exe file, and installing the Wow-PK Trojan.

IE7 - Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 - Should You Install It? (This article has 221 comments)
If you are running Windows, and are connected to the Internet, chances are you have started receiving messages from your Windows system telling you that IE7 - Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 - is ready for you to download and install, to upgrade whatever version of IE you are currently using. So, should you download and install IE7? There have already been many people who have regretted installing IE7.

Wii Will Rock You - The Nintendo Wii Gamebox Scores a Homerun with its Real 3D Live Gesture Remote Control and with Great Reviews (This article has 2 comments)
The new Nintendo Wii may have a funny and hard to remember name (is it the Nintendo Wii? Nintendo Wie? Nintendo Wee? Whee? Oui?), but it has managed to do what no other gamebox has done before - revolutionize game box gaming by incorporating genuine real-gesture remote control. It's also got built in Internet wi-fi access, and Bluetooth.

Are You Entitled to a Piece of the Settlement in the Class Action Suit Against Yahoo by Checkmate? (comments)
Last month it was announced that Yahoo had settled the case brought against it by CheckMate Strategic Group. Whether the clickfraud at Yahoo was as bad as CheckMate alleged, if at all, Yahoo has chosen to settle the case. This week email notices went out to individuals and businesses who may be eligible to request their share of the settlement. In case you didn't get a notice and think that you should have - or in case you're just curious - here is a copy of the notice.

Free Browser Add-On Brings Your Favourite Web Articles and News to You! (comments)
RssToolbar from Electronic Technologies, Inc. checks all of your favourite blogs, news, and other websites for any newly published articles, and then displays any new headlines in an unobtrusive bar along the top of your browser.

New Internet Explorer Vulnerability Revealed by Microsoft (comments)
Microsoft has said this week that they are receiving reports of a newly-discovered vulnerability in some versions of Internet Explorer. According to Microsoft, the vulnerability can be exploited in one of four different ways, involving any one of WMF images, email attachments, link poisoning, or getting a user to view an email message in the Outlook Express preview pane.

Repair Internet Explorer - Is It Possible and Is It Worth It? (comments)
Can you repair Internet Explorer? There are ways to repair Internet Explorer, however they can be tricky, and is it worth it?

Download Internet Explorer - Why and Where (This article has 5 comments)
An Internet Explorer download should be a relatively straight-forward matter, and it is, if you know where and how to do it.
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