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Posts Tagged ‘virus’

Protecting your computer online

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 8:39

Every computer needs a good anti virus software program. Being a computer repair technician I can tell you flat out that most of my money is made from people who do not want to spend the money on a good anti-virus software program. There are so many different companies, brands, ...

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Can ps2 get infeted

Tuesday, November 4, 2008 22:26

Ps2 is not an immune to any threat, You could (i guess) make a program that deletes everything on the memory card... Or prevents the ps2 from launching while that particular card is in the machine... Or well... You get the point. There just isn't any reason to do it. ...

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Hackers exploit financial crisis to gain benefit

Monday, October 20, 2008 20:41

The Federal Trade Commission urged Internet users to be on guard against e-mails that look as if they come from a financial institution that recently acquired a consumer's bank, savings and loan, or mortgage. "In fact, these messages may be from 'phishers' looking to use personal information -- account numbers, passwords, ...

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Phony email from Microsoft is a Worm

Monday, October 20, 2008 20:36

There is an email making the rounds which appears to be from "Microsoft Corporation Security Center" with a subject line of "Internet Security Update". The email has an attachment which the email describes as being the "1 Mar 2002 Cumulative Patch" for IE.  The attached file is typically named "Q216309.exe". There is no such patch from ...

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Why p2p is dangerous

Thursday, January 24, 2008 9:52

Peer to peer networks are dangerous, very less internet surfers know about it. Your computer is inviting hackers to invade. Let me explain briefly about p2p. When accessing the Internet, you access websites through an application known as a browser. Common browser applications are Internet Explorer, Netscape, and Mozilla. Peer-to-Peer ...

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iPods can be hit by virus

Monday, December 31, 2007 18:59

Hackers and virus creators have finally infected the Apple iPod - albeit very marginally since it affects only iPods with the Linux operating system  (about 0.01% of all iPods). Kasperksy Lab calls it the 'Podloso' while security major F-secure has named the virus 'Oslo.zip'. According to a report by Kaspersky Lab, ...

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How antivirus works on your computer

Sunday, December 2, 2007 22:41

Antivirus is a comon word for any computer user. It is simply the reverse of virus. The users from basic to expert also knows what is virus and how your virus attack the computer. Virus, malwares, trojans etc are simply the scripts which start malfunctioning the computer program. Now we ...

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BBB Virus

Thursday, May 24, 2007 22:18

The antivirus gateway detected an interesting email this evening. Envelope From: nobody@[edited] From: cmplntscentercase[at]bbb.org Originating IP 207.210.105.78 which is an IP address in Canada according to ARIN. Subject: Complaint Case Number: 363619942 Joe User (It contained the name of the recipient.) File: Embedded inside the attachment complaint.doc in an exe ‘MicrosoftWordhasencounteredaproblemandthedocumentwasnotfullyloaded.Pleasedouble-clickontheicontoreloadmsword.exe’ There were multiple detections on this ...

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Delf.aki

Tuesday, May 22, 2007 21:10

The HTTP gateway detected the Delf.aki virus in a file profilewatcher_setup.exe which one of my users tried to download. Just for kicks I uploaded it to the virustotal site and here’s the result. File size: 985897 bytes MD5: 837c3036adf45c11a45c8a2f356c060e SHA1: ef7311d94a80962d886befefb6bc08f03941f3e4 packers: BINARYRES Antivirus Version Update Result AhnLab-V3 2007.5.21.1 05.22.2007 no virus found AntiVir 7.4.0.27 ...

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