• The PC World 100: Best Products of 2009

  
  A laptop that recharges wirelessly, a CPU that leaves the competition in the dust, and a top pick that's changing the face of computing--these are just three of the items in our PC World Top 100 list of the best products of the year.

• Facebook Dethrones Spam King

  
  Facebook wins a $711 million lawsuit against chronic spammer Sanford Wallace.
• iPhone 'Rickroll' Worm Is No Threat To Most Users
• iPhone Worm Rickrolls Jailbroken Phones
• SSL Hole Cracks Open Secured Web Traffic
• Google Dashboard: Your Services, All in One Place
• Google Dashboard Gives You a Degree of Control
• Game or Trojan? You're Not the Judge
• Google Dashboard: Good -- But More Explanation, Please
• Mac Trojan May be a Hoax

Security How-Tos

• How to Automate Windows 7 Backups How to set up and automate backups in Windows 7.
• Protect Your Privacy on Facebook and Twitter Here's how to safeguard your identity and your personal data in the age of the social Web.
• Which Updates Should I Install? When Dick McGraw checks Windows Update, he wonders which patches he should download and install
• What is Antivirus 2010? Lonerlady asked the Answer Line forum about this very insistent program
• Turn an Old Floppy Into a Password Safe If you're handy with a glue stick, you can put an unused 3.5-inch disk to good use as a "fake rock."

Security News

• iPhone Worm Rickrolls Jailbroken Phones A prankster worm spreading in Australia hearkens back to malware's early days.
• iPhone 'Rickroll' Worm Is No Threat To Most Users Jailbroken iPhones have been hit with the 'Rickroll' worm, but the threat is limited.
• Google Dashboard: Your Services, All in One Place View a demo of Google's new Web page where you can see how just how much of their data Google stores.
• Mac Trojan May be a Hoax Symantec says creating a spoof Trojan to promote a game is risky.
• Google Dashboard Gives You a Degree of Control Google is putting all your account info on a single page, hoping to calm fears about its intentions. But not everyone is convinced.

Security Playing in PCW Video

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  How to Automate Windows 7 Backups How to set up and automate backups in Windows 7.
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  Digital Demolition: Hard Drive vs. Flame Thrower! The ioSafe external hard drive is designed to withstand home catastrophes such as floods and fires. But can it survive the 3000-degree fire cannon?
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  World Tech Update: Hackers, the myTouch 3G, and Taylor Swift Gets Scanned Defcon attendees hack their badges, T-Mobile's myTouch 3G arrives in San Francisco and Taylor Swift lends her body to Activision.

Security Reviews

• Clamwin Free Antivirus Software This open-source antivirus software fails to get the job done, with disappointing malware detection and no real-time scanning.
• Avira AntiVir Personal Free Antivirus Software Avira AntiVir Personal offers great, thorough protection and top-notch scan speed, but some nontechies might find its interface frustrating.
• Panda Cloud Antivirus (Beta) Free Software Panda Cloud Antivirus provides great protection in an easy-to-use application, but it's still too deep in development to recommend.
• Comodo Internet Security Free Antivirus Software Comodo Internet Security is not a good antivirus choice, owing to its lackluster malware detection and its tendency to produce false positives.
• Microsoft Security Essentials (Beta) Free Antivirus Software An effective but somewhat slow utility, Microsoft Security Essentials will be a solid contender when it comes out of beta around the end of 2009.