ZeroAccess Rootkit: Doomsday and Armageddon all-in-one? The ZeroAccess Rootkit Trojan is the latest rootkit virus to gain widespread infiltration into a huge number of computers. While traditional viruses attempt to infect and destroy as many computers in their path before they’re stopped by anti-virus software, rootkits aim to keep your system working but under the [...]
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The ZeroAccess Rootkit Trojan Monday, November 5th, 2012 -
FBI Virus is “Ransomware” Friday, November 2nd, 2012FBI Virus is a Scam Out to Get You! I never thought I’d look back fondly on the days when malware just caused annoying pop-ups. The newest bug crawling the Web is called “ransomware,” and it holds your computer hostage until you pay a demanded ransom. The latest has several names: FBI Moneypak, Citadel Reveton [...]
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5 Tricks to Revive an Old PC Monday, September 24th, 2012
Breathe New Life Into an Old PC If every click on your old, slow computer makes you want to tear your hair out but your budget just won’t permit replacing it, take heart. Even if you’ve already upgraded the hardware to the extent you can and performed all maintenance to rule out a malware infection, [...]
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Stop Using Internet Explorer, Right Now! Wednesday, September 19th, 2012Internet Explorer Glitch Opens The Door To Hackers A bug in all versions of Internet Explorer leaves anyone using IE in conjunction with the Windows Operating System (more than 40% of Internet users in North America according to StatCounter) vulnerable to infection by Trojan horse viruses. In a Security Advisory released by Microsoft on September [...]
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Apple iOS and Android New Targets of Malware Tuesday, September 11th, 2012Your Apple iOS or Android Phone Can Get Malware As computers become more prevalent, the viruses that prey on them increase as well. According to McAfee, a protection provider, malware is multiplying faster now than it ever has. In the last quarter alone, there have been 1.5 million more attacks than previously. With new technology, [...]
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Emma Watson Will Give You A Computer Virus Tuesday, September 11th, 2012Celebrity Crushes Can Give You a Computer Virus Emma Watson is at the top of the list “Most Dangerous Celeb to Search For.” If you’re reading this and you don’t know who Emma Watson is yet, you might want to finish reading this article before you perform a Google search for her. The young actress [...]
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Protect Yourself Against Identity Theft Monday, August 20th, 2012Online Identity Theft Prevention On August 3rd, 2012, a tech writer for Wired’s “Gadget Lab,” Mat Honan, was the victim of identity theft. His iPhone, iPad and MacBook were remotely wiped, his Twitter account hijacked and his Gmail deleted. He lost irreplaceable photos from the first year of his daughter’s life, hundreds of emails, and [...]
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Simple & Easy Computer Maintenance Monday, August 20th, 2012Do It Yourself Computer Maintenance You may think computer maintenance is only for the Nerds among us, but there are many easy things you can do to speed up your PC without investing a lot of time or money. Whether you’re a Windows or Mac user, performing some basic computer maintenance can ensure your system [...]
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DNSChanger: What you need to know Wednesday, July 4th, 2012
DNSChanger: How To See If You’re Infected, How To Fix It If You Are. On Monday, July 9th, the FBI will pull the plug on internet access to hundreds of thousands of computers infected with a malware Trojan known as DNSChanger. Even if your computer is clean, companies that have compromised systems in their network [...]
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3 Things To Do When You Set Up A New PC Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012
Set Up A New PC: Protect, Transfer, Store After scrimping and saving, researching and debating, you finally settle on the perfect new PC, only to realize once you get it home and plugged in that you can’t get much use out of it until you get the files and programs from your old PC onto [...]
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