Archive for the ‘Virus Protection’ Category
Friday, December 11th, 2009
In the past week I have been on 7 calls to remove the fake anti-virus. They seem to getting worse, just found one (System Protection) it makes the computer so you can't boot into Safe mode, it's removed the Alt + Ctrl + Delete.
I have to use my Minipe disk ...
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Saturday, September 26th, 2009
Windows Police Pro, it installs a root kit, so it really gets in there. This one thou is not that disruptive. I was able to use Alt + Ctrl + Delete to get to the task manager, there it was listed as Police Defender Pro and I could ...
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Saturday, September 19th, 2009
In one day one company in Las Vegas hi jacked the Google local map listing. I have spent a week trying to find out how one company can take over computer repair las vegas. In short Hi jacking the biggest search engin. I need help from anyone ...
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Friday, September 18th, 2009
Malvertising (malicious Advertising) is a process of installing unwanted or outright malicious software on your pc. I first noticed it with Anti-virus 2008, which popped up on your screen and started running a scan of your Computer to see if you have any viruses. It pops up with a whole ...
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
The Newest addition to the Fake Anti-virus list. Green AV, this one can be ended by going into the Task Manager and ending process gav.exe
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
Conficker Worm Test
Reports that the Conficker computer worm is “now parading as an anti-virus program called Spyware Protect 2009. The worm takes users to a fake security Web site, asks them to pay $50 for a spyware program that actually is the Conficker worm, then keeps your credit card information ...
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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
When your PC dies, and you are trying to bring it back to life and you find that there is no system restore point, the best thing to do is to get your xp disc and boot to the OS load. The first repair that comes up is for a ...
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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
It has been a long time coming, but a virus writer has finally been arrested by the Japanese authorities. According to security specialists Sophos law enforcement agencies in Kyoto, Japan, have arrested three men who stand accused of plotting to infect users of a popular P2P file-sharing network with a ...
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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Over the course of last weekend I was busy setting up some new systems.
During that process I came across an old virtual machine that I decided to fire up.
Upon launching Firefox on that machine I was greeted by the following:
Now what's wrong with this picture? Quite a lot if you ...
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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
As pointed out by Stefan short URLs create big problems. How big those problems can get has been made very clear in an attack suffered by cli.gs. They claim to be the 4th most used shortening service on Twitter.
In a blog posting on their site the company says that they ...
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