Read our take on BitDefender Internet Security 2008

New reviews have been added to our Reviews section. These are: AVG Anti-Virus + Firewall, AVG Anti-Malware and Kaspersky Anti-Virus. These reviews are not in depth reviews like the reviews done on the Internet Security products, they only give the user a basic overview of the differences between these products and the more comprehensive versions that's available.

Over 45 new examples of hoaxes, scams and spam e-mails have been published today.

A lot of malware related improvements have been made to our site. We simplified our Malware Removal Guide, added a new Online Malware Scanners page and expanded our malware reporting services by adding a page that can be used to submit the URLs of malicious websites to us.

Live Online Priority Support is now powered by ChatStat. You no longer have to download Google Talk or any other chat software to receive priority support from us. You can chat directly to us from our website via the ChatStat system.

We have listed our RSS feeds on separate page for easy access and subscription to all our feeds. The page also includes easy-to-follow instructions for those who are not familiar with the methods of subscribing to RSS feeds.

Read our review of what may be regarded as one of the best Internet Security suites of all time.

The work on the malware sample submission service is finally done and we are ready to receive your submissions. At the moment it can only process files with a size of 2MB or smaller, but we hope to increase this limit in the future.

Check out our latest recommended method of reporting spam. Within two mouse-clicks you can report spam to several anti-spam organisations simultaneously.

We have put together a page where we explain exactly what we do with the spam reported to us.

We updated the Hoaxes, Spams & Scams section with new examples of eBay Phishing scams, PayPal Phishing scams, Home Loan Phishing Scams, a new Amazon Phishing Scam and a couple of Bank Of America phishing scams.

Some of you may have experienced some problems reporting spam to us lately. Our mailboxes were unable to handle the load so we decided to migrate our e-mail service to Google Apps in order to provide a better service to the people reporting spam to us. The migration process is now complete and you should now be able to report spam to us again, without any problems.

We changed our spam reporting policy once again. We have increased the daily limit of spam data to 2MB per person. The temporary e-mail account used for large attachments will not be available anymore very soon, so please report all your spam (including spam with large attachments) to spam@cybertopcops.com.

New and improved online support is now available via Google Talk. Please note that the service is currently still in Beta.

Scammers impersonating UEFA are distributing e-mails promising huge sums of money.

Apart from the dangers of phishing scams, they often provide bit of comedy. Take a look at some of the most ridiculous ideas used by scammers in the American Express Phishing Scam, the APEX ACH Phishing Scam and the Chase Online Banking Phishing Scam.

We decided to implement a new spam reporting policy by limiting the amount of spam data per person to 1MB per day. This is done in order to conserve bandwidth, not only our own, but also the bandwidth of the people reporting the spam to us. Please refer to our Report Spam page for more information on reporting spam to Cyber Top Cops.

Helpful tips for making your browser safer and less vulnerable to browser hijacks and harmful websites.

Learn how to train the Junk Mail Filter of Mozilla Thunderbird for optimal spam filtering and junk mail control.

We have updated the tips on configuring the Thunderbird Junk Mail Controls. We also added two new tips namely: Using the QuickScan Functions of Anti-Malware Applications and useful Firewall Configuration Tips.

We have updated our malicious software guide with additional malware removal techniques and advice. This includes the Special Malware Removal Tools, the Kaspersky Online Virus Scanner and several smaller improvements to the guide, including the addition of the Malware Removal Forums earlier this week.

We have added a new step to our Free Malware Removal Guide. This step involves a list of sites users can visit for assistance in the removal of stubborn malware. We encourage all our visitors to send us suggestions of other good malware removal forums that can also be added to this page.

The latest scams added to our site:
FBI Monitoring Scam
Harvey Investment Company Scam
Sydney Car Centre Scam
Online Cyber Lottery Scam
Capital One Phishing Scams
Halifax Phishing Scams
MidAmerica Bank Phishing Scams

Pages updated with new examples:
Royal Bank Of Scotland Phishing Scams
Special Event Malware Spam

After long consideration, we decided to put the Cyber Top Cops Safety Stamp of Approval on hold until further notice. This decision was made due to the constant rise in cyber crime and since our main goal is to battle cyber crime, we decided to devote all our resources towards this goal until we have some spare resources available for this project. Every applicant who applied so far will be notified via e-mail.

Two new examples have been added to our Banking Phishing Scams section, namely the National Westminster Bank Phishing Scam and the North Island Credit Union Phishing Scam.

Quite a few changes have been made to the site over the past few weeks. We have redesigned the layout of the Hoaxes, Scams, Spam section by placing each example on a separate page. This was done to place more emphasis on specific examples and to make the pages load faster.

We also added two new categories namely the Malware Spam and IRS Phishing Scams sections. We also added a couple of new examples to the Banking Phishing Scams section.

Finally, we grouped all the different types of software from our Anti-virus, Anti-spyware, Anti-Hacker and Ant-Spam pages onto one single page called the Cyber Security Software Page.

Up to now our Online Threat Simulations feature only worked with Firefox. The problem has now been resolved and the simulations now work in most mainstream browsers.

We have added 5 new phishing scams to our Banking Phishing Scams page, namely phishing scam example 14a and examples 19-22. Take special note of example #21, illustrating a new technique used by phishing scammers to trick unwary victims.

Things have been hectic the last couple of months and we know that the site has not been updated with new content since 31 March 2007. But we added new examples of Banking phishing scams, Amazon Phishing Scams, eBay Phishing scams and two very interesting Lottery Scams. Our reviews section has also been updated with the review of AOL Active Virus Shield

We have improved the layout of our E-mail Scams menu, added the new Home Loan Phishing Scam section and updated the Amazon Phishing Scams section with a new example.