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Symantec Antivirus was infected which left PC unprotected and the User Unaware. Cracked open the case to find one of the dirtiest computers that I have seen in a while so after a good cleaning I set it up [...]  Microsoft Updates for Duqu Security researchers became aware of Duqu in October when Symantec said it had found a virus that contained code similar to Stuxnet, a piece of [...] Why you might want to switch from your Internet Service Providers name resolution servers? Security is achieved through real-time block list (RBL) of harmful websites, phishing sites, malware sites, and spyware sites. Speed can be achieved by improved latency between client and DNS resolving server, latency between resolving servers and [...] Free software in Android Markets and Malware. We all install those fun and free Android applications on occasion without thinking about what we might be opening. And besides Android devices, this Trojan spyware also affects Nokia’s Symbian, Blackberry, And Windows Phone. Zitmo, a Trojan spyware app [...] Seems like Apple has been having to sharpen it’s coding skills and getting patches out the door, and it is good to see they are doing the job. Apple on Friday released a software update to patch a vulnerability that hackers could use to break into the company’s popular iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch gadgets…. read more: Think [...] It looks like the exploits by hacking group Anonymous continue. From Yahoo NEWS: Hacker group Anonymous released a trove of military email addresses and passwords it claimed to have plundered from the network of US defense consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. Anonymous made available a file containing more than 90,000 email addresses and other information it said in [...] I was on twitter and saw a link to an article that discusses why the bad guys seem to be winning the IT or cyber security battle. This article is well written and offers readers many items to ponder and provides links to a lot of great tools. A couple of highlights from the article: Internet User Guide: [...] It’s becoming a problem all over the world, where you are constantly trying to keep your computer running virus-free. It’s getting harder and harder all of the time and now we even find some of the ads for Antivirus and Malware security software are really Malware themselves, causing our computers to run slower and slower. You [...] MLD Services once again repaired a PC with a trojan/malware version of DNS redirect, which is a shame because the user could have saved themselves a lot of money by just updating Windows, their web browser, and running a full Internet Security suite. Win32 Alureon and it’s removal from Windows computers This past week MLD Services ran into a particularly nasty virus called Win32 Alueron that was installed on a clients laptop. Symptoms of the infection were the disabling of the free version of Avast and redirects from the website the user was trying to view to infected sites attempting to install more malware. Here is Microsoft’s definition: |
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