The Haute Secure company offers a free online service that will help the consumers to detect and stop web hosted malware. Looks like the internet-borne computer code, created for stealing private information, will meet its end. A program is available  for downloading from Haute Secure's website. It works with a computer's internet browser to spot and cease the possible damaging computer code from a website.

When a small padlock appears in the corner of your Web browser's address bar or the entire bar turns green, it seems like a powerful signal you're safe to proceed.

More than 3 million Web pages on the Internet are malicious. According to Neils Provos, senior staff software engineer with Google, the percent is one in 1,000.The experts call these attacks "drive-by downloads". Their number increased although through firewalls and better security practices, Microsoft succeeded in stopping the viruses or worms to directly attack PCs.

IBM released the findings of the 2007 X-Force Security report, detailing a disturbing rise in the sophistication of attacks by criminals on Web browsers worldwide. According to IBM, by attacking the browsers of computer users, cybercriminals are now stealing the identities and controlling the computers of consumers at a rate never before seen on the Internet.

A new project, Symantec Family Safety Initiative, was presented at the DEMO Conference, held in Palm Desert, Arizona. Symantec imagined a method to protect kids online: instead of offering ways to block certain Web sites or limiting access to pre-screened safe sites, it helps them in their regulation.