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On our website someone posted a malicious link on an old post dedicated to Steve Jobs . The post has been deleted as has other malicious posts.
Thanks to an alert reader/listener for catching it.
If you need any more encouragement about keeping your anti-virus up to date here it is. The virus controlled by the Zeus botnet recently sent the kill signal and took 100,000 computer down. These computer blue screened and then became unusable.
The reasons for this are unclear, but the effect is unmistakable 100,000 computers are now [...]
One of these products is a legitimate anti-virus the other is a virus. Can you tell which one is which?
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Answer: The bottom one is the real anti-virus. The top is an extortion-ware virus.
Tags: antivirus, spot the difference, virus
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Conficker is a highly virulent virus that lies inactive until April 1st. Groups like CIRA (who control the .ca domain) are fighting hard against it, but it’s up to everyone to ensure their system is safe and clean.
Find out by using this provided by Bit Defender if your [...]
Tags: april 1st, conficker, virus
Download Removal Tool Here
Conficker is a highly virulent virus that lies inactive until April 1st. Groups like CIRA (who control the .ca domain) are fighting hard against it, but it’s up to everyone to ensure their system is safe and clean.
Find out by using this provided by Bit Defender if your computer is clean and [...]
Tags: conficker, virus, virus removal
Everyone should be seeing the little yellow shield in the next day or so. That shield will contain the fix to the latest devastating flaw in Internet Explorer. So patch your systems ASAP!
Tags: flaw, Internet Explorer, virus
If you get a facebook message that directs you to an outside website that asks you to update your flash player you’ve probably just been hit with the latest Facebook virus.
Be wary of any program that wants to install to your computer and be wary of any facebook link that takes you outside of Facebook.
Elaborate [...]
We’re now starting to see the first real Mac viruses being released. This virus seems to be taking advantage of the lessons learned attacking the Windows platform.
With Tony’s computer he had done a reinstall using a very old copy of Windows XP. This version (pre service pack 2) had no built in firewall. Because of this as soon as the computer was plugged into the Internet it became infected with a variety of viruses.
Probably no easy way to save it. We [...]
Tags: Blaster, firewall, virus
Superantispyware is probably the most effective removal tool for this particular virus. Download, update and run in safe mode.
Tags: superantispyware, virus, windows antivirus 2008