The bug is labelled the “Curse of Silence” due to the bugs knock on effect on the phone.  The bug stops the phones ability to receive text messages once the bug has had its way with your handset.  The bug was stopped as the Nokia handset evolved over the years, but now the bug has resurfaced and is attacking such models that run the Nokia S60 system, such as the Nokia N95, E71 and the N76, some of the most popular phones in the world.

Just to make things worse, there is no known cure for the bug so if you’ve got it then you will have to look to totally hard reset the phone and lose everything on it, and then you will most likely get it again in time and you will have to do it all over again.

There has been a security issue with phones for a while for security developers in that there has been no security problem with handsets for quite a long time.  We have been trundling along quite blissfully with pretty much no reasons to spend any of our hard earned money on security software for our handsets…until now.  Now this bug has come back to attack Nokia, security providers finally have something to advertise again…good news for them bad news for us it seems.

However, if you have recently jumped onto one of the more recent phones such as the Nokia N85, N96 and other such phones that run the S60 Feature Pack 2 then you’re safe and sound and have nothing to worry about.

However, some people aren’t taking the risk as seriously as the security developers would like as some are claiming that the bug is more of a nuisance than a threat.  Surely the threat is the nuisance?

Nokia seems to have bigger things on their mind for 2009, however, as the touchscreen war battles on.  Nokia have been knocked off their metaphorical handset pedestal by the success of Apple’s iPhone, however Nokia plans on taking back their hold on the market with their future handsets – starting with the Nokia N97.

The Nokia N97 is a touchscreen smartphone that has a full QWERTY keyboard that slides right out from underneath.  The phone is being hailed as the “world’s most advanced mobile computer”, the kind of labels that Nokia likes to hear, but will it be enough to take on the popular iPhone?

In some cases, spies and covert operations are found in war grounds or politically tense regions. Now however, you can find spies and covert operations running undetected within your personal computer system as you use your computer and the Internet.

Have you noticed a suspicious slow down of your computer’s processing without any particular reason? Are you bombarded by unsolicited pop up ads that indiscriminately appear whether you are running a program or not? These symptoms may continue to happen despite checking your system and running your recently updated anti virus program to run diagnostics on your computer.

Unless you run the correct program, you will not be able to detect the real problem in your system: spyware and adware.

Adware are unsolicited programs that usually come bundled with freeware or shareware. Yes, sometimes things that seem to be good to be true usually come with unwanted invisible strings attached. Companies usually pay freeware or shareware creators to be able to capitalize and prey on unsuspecting individuals who download these programs. Adware cause unsolicited pop up advertisements in your computer and in severe cases, adware causes pop up advertisements to pop up soon as you boot your system.

Spyware on the other hand is more covert and usually undetected in your system until you run an anti spyware program. Spyware is used exactly to spy on you. In relatively mild cases, spyware is used to track your Internet browsing habits so that the spyware can report your preferences to build a marketing profile. This means that as you go about your Internet business, you are under surveillance and your basic right to privacy is impinged upon.

In severe cases though, certain spyware better labeled as malware, are used for criminal purposes and can steal keywords and other sensitive information based on your computer and Internet usage.

For instance, malware can take note of your keystrokes or take note of your credit card number and other vital information that can be used to steal your identity and generally put your security at risk.It is said that 9 out 10 computers are infected with spyware and to make sure that you are not part of statistical majority, you need run an adware and spyware cleaner to detect unwanted security and privacy breach within your system.

There are a lot of reliable adware and spyware cleaners in available to remove these unwanted programs in your computer. You must note however that some adware and spyware are intricately bundled within their parent programs that cleaning them out from your computer will inadvertently disable the legitimate programs they infect. This consequence is a necessary evil to clean your computer of unwanted adware and spyware. You should choose an adware and spyware cleaner that can also work proactively by preventing future accidental installation of these nuisances.

Adware and spyware cleaners work like your anti virus programs except that these particular cleaners target adware and spyware.Considering the trouble adware and spyware creators take to ensure that extracting installed adware and spyware from your computer system will be difficult, the adage about an ounce of prevention being worth more than a pound of cure applies in this situation.  Be sure to install a reliable and secure adware and spyware cleaner in your system to remove existing security and privacy risks as well as preventing future hassle.