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At a recent Virus Bulletin conference one of the attendees found one topic extremely interesting. The topic was about the Russian “Partnerka”, which has been mutated to attack Mac computer systems. The attendee knew that a majority of Mac users have no anti-malware software in place and could be easily infected. At the same conference [...]

At a time when the newspapers and other publishers are struggling to stay in business, the last thing the New York Times needed was an attack on their web site. But this is what apparently happened and the Times is warning visitings with this statement:
“Some NYTimes.com readers have seen a pop-up box warning them about a [...]

I have mentioned previously about using online security scanners to check your system periodically. I do this for several reasons. First of all I do not believe that any one product can provide 100% perfect protection all of the time. Second, using more than one program gives me a feeling that my system really, really [...]

For those who may not be familiar with the tale of the OK Corral, it happened back in 1881 in Tombstone, Arizona. The famous gunfight featured a host of characters with Wyatt Earp, his brothers Virgil and Morgan Earp, plus Doc Holiday on one side. These four went up against fought the Clantons and McLaurys at [...]

According to a blog entry at Sophos, if you are scheduled for a flight on Southwest Airlines on March 13th, you may have trouble logging in online. It seems that the virus known as Confickeris scheduled to call home to wnsux.com for further instructions. But the virus won’t receive any directions. Instead the site which is [...]

Yesterday afternoon I received an email from my lead for the MVP program which asked to have this information publicly distributed. In the email it stated that:

Actions Requested:
Win32/Conficker.B/Downadup infections

Please offer these links and resources to members of your community to help mitigate this threat.

MS08-067
Malicious Software Removal tool
History: Win32/Conficker.B
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I have been using AVG for about 4 years and I have found the software to have provided ample protection. I have also heard others here in this blog and other forums express their preference on using Avast. For those users of Avast you may wish to read the results in that Avast was one [...]

Microsoft is planning a new security offering code name ‘morro’, which the software giant hopes with curb the tide of malware infecting our systems. In addition Microsoft will stop making the paid subscription version of Windows Live OneCare effective June 30, 2009.  According to the press release Microsoft states:
“Customers around the world have told us [...]

Over at the CA security blog, they have done a great job in bringing another of the fake Windows Security Center screens to our attention. The fake screen is so good, that some users can be fooled into thinking it is real. CA states that the fake screen can place a trojan file on your [...]

When Grisoft released their new version of their popular free edition of AVG anti-virus, there were many complaints posted on the Internet. Some people were so upset that they actually gave up on AVG and went to another program. So when I read in the October 2008 edition of PC World, which still recommends AVG [...]

I ran into this tale of woe, in which a trained tech. did an experiment and tried downloading software from a torrent. If you are not familiar with torrents they are best described as a system wherein everyone shares a folder on their system to make downloading easier. The usual warnings apply in that the [...]

A reader by the name of Barrie Orton posted this in the comments section of a previous article I had written here. Not only does Barrie indicate that his system is infected but that he can’t seem to remove the virus as well.
Sadly, I have Norton 360. I read all the bad [...]

Over at Symantec they are warning users of a new Trojan virus that is targeting over 400 banks. According to the post the Trojan can intercept transactions between two parties to gather personal information. In the statement it reads:
This Trojan downloads a configuration file that contains the domain names of over 400 banks. Not only [...]