Researchers from Google surveyed billions of sites and analyzed 4.5 million web pages, showing the sheer volume of web-based malware.

In recent months, we have received dozens of e-mails from our users bringing to our attention suspicious websites claiming to be affiliated with Lavasoft and/or Ad-Aware software. They are popping up everywhere on the net. They are stealing our company name, our product name, our graphics, our product information (on the web), our GUI (Graphic User Interface), even our definition files - and claiming them as their own.

Please be weary of these. Many are made to look legitimate and by using our graphics, it is easy to think it's the real thing.

Over the weekend, more than four exploits for a vulnerability in the Windows domain name system (DNS) service were published, increasing the chances of a widespread attack; exploits may aid cyber-criminals in creating malicious code to compromise systems through the vulnerability.

Todays security update: play it safe by getting your news from legitimate sources and not from attachments in your e-mail.

The Lavasoft Support Center team has received a number of e-mails lately from Ad-Aware SE users experiencing ISP/Error Retrieving Updates issues.

An Ad-Aware SE warning reading "Error retrieving updates" was popping up when performing a web update. It interrupted at 5% download completion.

This has been resolved.