Category: Malware
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First OS X trojan spotted – no need to panic just yet!
There is a great deal of chatter on TechMeme this morning because a trojan has emerged which infects Apple’s OS X! The trojan is found in pornographic sites masquerading as a video codec. It isn’t a huge threat because to become infected you need to go through several steps: When the users arrive on one…
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Users are 'stupid' – Microsoft
I wrote a post over a year ago about how I deal with PCs which have become infected with malware (viruses/trojans/worms/rootkits, etc.): what I do, is to re-install the OS – more often recently it is XP, turn off System Restore, install XP SP2, Microsoft Anti Spyware, Spybot, Adaware, and AVG… or consider formatting the…
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Riya frustrations
I received an Alpha invite to try out Riya the other day. I have posted about Riya previously and it does sound like it will be an exciting application – it is an online photo application (like Flickr) but it has facial recognition software built-in. This means that once you upload a photo and tell…
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Microsoft to start selling anti-virus services
The BBC are running a story about Microsoft starting an anti-virus and security service for PC users. According to the BBC’s site The service is designed to automatically patch-up security holes, as well as beef up anti-virus and spyware protection. It will also help maintain the health of a user’s PC generally Is it just…
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Firefox is less secure than Internet Explorer?
Fred Langa has written one of the most misleading and ill-informed articles I have read on the web in quite some time. In this misleading and ill-informed article, Fred posits that changing to Firefox–or Mozilla, or any similar software–because “it’s more secure” is a dangerous misconception; and demonstrably false Incredibly, Fred is trying to tell…
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Blogs used to infect PCs with spyware and malware
I note a story on the BBC Technology site which says Spyware and Malware authors have copped on to the popularity of blogs and are now using them as vectors to host spyware and malware to infect people lured to the blog. I’m surprised it took so long for them to come up with this.…
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How to rid a PC of viruses and malware
My parents have asked me to look at their neighbours PC – it has started ‘acting funny’ and “they think it might have a virus”, I was told. “Uh oh”, I thought. Here we go again. If you are the local IT guru you know this feeling well. And, is it just me or is…
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Internet Explorer use falling further still
I note that eWeek are reporting that usage of Microsoft’s internet Explorer has fallen another 1.5% to 90.3%. Of course, what is amazing, to me, is that over 90% of people are still using internet Explorer! Still, I shouldn’t complain, a lot of my business these days is coming from people whose PC’s have been…