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Author :: Greg Richburg  |
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| Article Title :: Virus Prevention 101 |
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| Blaster, Welchia, Sobig, W32, Backdoor, Trojan, Melissa, Klez, Worm, Loveletter, Nimda… Do these names sound Familiar?Have you been as bothered by viruses this past year as I have? Does it seem like there are more viruses, worms and Trojans out now then ever before? It is only getting worse.For the general public, "virus" has become a catchall term for any unwanted program that spreads from computer-to-computer; yet, in reality, there are differences between viruses, worms and Trojan horses.Worms reside in active memory, are self replicating, and usually use native operating system components to do so. Trojans are programs in which malicious or harmful code is conta (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Ryan Fyfe |
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| Article Title :: Types Of Computer Infections |
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| Computer infections can be broken up into 4 main categories which are explained in detail below:VirusesComputer Viruses are small pieces of software that attach themselves to real programs. An example would be a virus that attaches itself onto windows explorer. Each time you run the program windows explorer the virus will also be executed and perform the function that it was meant to perform. This can be several things such as damaging files on your computer, or erasing them all together. This is also the time in which the virus will try to spread itself onto other programs and even other computers!WormsA worm just like a virus is a small piece of (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Gary Gresham |
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| Article Title :: Top Five Online Scams |
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| The top five online scams on the Internet hit nearly ten million people last year according to an FBI report in December 2004. That figure doubled from 2003 to 2004 and people are continuing to fall for these email and identity theft scams.These con artists and hackers are just waiting to commit online fraud and steal your identity. Look carefully at these top five online scams and be aware of what is going on so you won't become a victim.Scam # 1 Online Auction ScamYou buy something on an online auction, send them the money and get nothing in return. Or the product you get is a fake or a cheap knockoff instead of the genuine brand name item. This is a risk you t (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Mario Ramis |
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| Article Title :: Computer Security |
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| What is computer security?
Computer security is the process of preventing and detecting unauthorized use of your computer. Prevention measures help you to stop unauthorized users (also known as "intruders") from accessing any part of your computer system. Detection helps you to determine whether or not someone attempted to break into your system, if they were successful, and what they may have done.Why should I care about computer security?
We use computers for everything from banking and investing to shopping and communicating with others through email or chat programs. Although you may not consider your communications "top secret," you probably do not want strangers read (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: William Nabaza |
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| Article Title :: How To Clean the Spies In Your Computer? |
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| Manual Spy Bot Removal > BookedSpaceBookedSpace is an Internet Explorer Browser Helper Object used to show advertising.Free PC Health Check - find bad files fast! How many corrupt and redundant files are lurking inside your PC ready to cause harmful errors? Find these harmful "time-bomb" files instantly and keep your computer ERROR FREE 24 hours a day!Variants
BookedSpace/Remanent : early variant (around July 2003) with filename rem00001.dll, controlling server 66.225.192.199.BookedSpace/BS2 and BookedSpace/BS3 : newer revisions (August 2003) with filename bs2.dll or bs3.dll, controlling server www.bookedspace.com.Distribution
BookedSpace/Remanen (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: William Nabaza |
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| Article Title :: How To Avoid Hackers From Destroying Your Site? |
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| Recently, my site and other internet accounts ( http://www.nabaza.com/sites.htm ) have been hacked maliciously for the purpose of getting all my online sales and transferring it to his/her account. I've learned a valuable lesson that I would like to share with you so as to avoid becoming the next victim for this hacker.Steps to protect your web site:1. Don't give out your username/password to anyone else.Even if it's your own net/web/system admin. Chances are he/she already knows it for he/she can just login as admin to the control panel and look at your password.2. Change your password once in a while.It's better to write them down instead of saving the (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Erich Heintz |
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| Article Title :: How To Give Away Your Personal Information |
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| Identity Theft and Your Personal Information
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Identity theft is apparently the “in thing” these days. By
media accounts, hackers and evildoers lurk everywhere trying
to steal your personal information. In the past few months,
one company after another is being forced to admit customer
data has been lost or stolen.In many cases, they have then come forth repeatedly over the
next few weeks, or even months revising the estimated number
of impacted customers. To date, I don’t think any have ever
lowered those numbers.Identity Theft and Respected Companies
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Generally spe (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Manish Katara |
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| Article Title :: New Mass Mailing Spamming Internet Trojan for the Windows Platform |
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| May. 16th 2005 - MicroWorld has reported the discovery of Troj/Sober-Q, which is a mass mailing spamming internet Trojan for the Windows platform.Some of the spam emails sent by this Trojan takes to respectable German news outlets, such as Spiegel etc., as reported by MicroWorld, which contain articles on:1. "Necessasity of Health Reforms";2. "asylum seekers receive first class private supply while medical supply for Germans abolished";3. "Dentists- enormous content increases expense of the contribution payers" etc.It affects Windows operating system and is also know by aliases such as Email-Worm.Win32.Sober.q and W32/Sober.q@MMIn order to protect (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: John Roberts |
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| Article Title :: Protection for Your PC - Painless and Free! |
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| Viruses, Bugs, Worms, Dataminers, Spybots, and Trojan horses. The Internet is a veritable minefield of things that can invade your PC and affect it’s Security and Performance.You can do something about it and you can do it FREE, using some or all of the following programs and tips.Anti-Virus protection.One of the best Free programs for this is AntiVir Personal Edition Anti-Virus software. Download it from:
http://www.free-av.com
Install on your PC and leave it running to block any incoming bugs or viruses! It can also be used to scan your system for any previous invasions, but be patient, this takes about 15 minutes to complete. Worth running periodically, to check (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Keith Erwood |
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| Article Title :: Spyware, What It Is, What It Does, And How To Stop It |
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| Spyware is software that runs on a personal computer without the knowledge or consent of the owner of that computer. The Spyware then collects personal information about the user or users of the infected computer. The personal information collected is usually the name of the user; the users email address, Websites visited, online shopping habits, as well as various other information about the user.Spyware is also sometimes known as Scumware, and Adware. Although Adware is slightly different in that the makers claim that the users are aware that they are collecting information about the user. Sometimes this is true, other times it is not. Many times these terms are used interchangea (read full article) |
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