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Author :: Kevin Souter  |
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| Article Title :: Spyware Attacks! Windows Safe Mode is No Longer Safe |
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| Many of us have run into an annoying and time-consuming error. With your machine running goofey you decide to run a scan for trojans and spyware. Following the scan, which usually takes fourty minutes or longer if you scan the entire system, you are hit with the "access denied" error. Frustrating, for sure, but being the savvy computer user that you are you decide to boot to safe mode to take care of the issue. No spyware can load when booted to safe mode, right?Wrong.The newer variants of the CoolWebSearch, HuntBar, and VX2 infections all load even when safe mode is used. There are a few different ways of accomplishing this, the most common being that the spyware registers (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Kevin Souter |
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| Article Title :: Free Spyware Removal - It's Not As Easy As It Sounds |
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| Nobody wants to pay to remove spyware. At the very least, I don't. The blasted stuff shouldn't be on my computer anyway, so what ever would make me want to shell out cash to get rid of something that I shouldn't have in the first place?Spyware removal tools come in many different forms, and from many different places. Lavasoft's Ad-Aware is from Sweden, and Spybot: Search and Destroy is from Germany, I think. (Their error messages come up in German, so I have to assume..)Purchasing adware removal software can even be dangerous, so to speak. If you're buying it from a pop-up then more than likely you're just lining the pockets of the person that infected your machine in the f (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Darren Miller |
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| Article Title :: Phishing: An Interesting Twist On A Common Scam |
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| After Two Security Assessments I Must Be Secure, Right?
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Imagine you are the CIO of a national financial institution
and you've recently deployed a state of the art online
transaction service for your customers. To make sure your
company's network perimeter is secure, you executed two
external security assessments and penetration tests. When
the final report came in, your company was given a clean
bill of health. At first, you felt relieved, and confident
in your security measures. Shortly thereafter, your relief
turned to concern. "Is it really possible that we are
completely secure?" Given you're skepticism, you decide to
get one (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: David Hallett |
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| Article Title :: Do You Know What your Kids Are Doing Online? |
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| It's a sad statistic, but hundreds of unsuspecting kids are lured away from home every year by strangers they meet in online chat rooms.As frightening as this seems, it gets scarce attention in the media. We often hear about missing children, but only occasionally do we actually hear of a chat room connection.Chat rooms are very popular because they are an easy way to talk to others annonymously. Anyone can enter a chat room with an identity- real names are rarely, if ever, given. A shy person, for example, someone who finds it hard to talk to others in person, may find it much easier to communicate because they can hide behind their identity, which gives them a sense of sec (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Daviyd Peterson |
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| Article Title :: Spyware is Not Like a Nosy Neighbor |
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| Remember the television show about the nosy neighbor Mrs. Kravitz
always peeking out her window or over the fence, sometimes even
knocking on the door just to find out what was going on in her
neighborhood? If you don't wait a month or so and the DVD or
the movie will be out. Let's move on.Spyware is not anything like Mrs. Kravitz, it won't knock on the
door and ask permission to be downloaded to your computer and
look at your personal files. It will slip onto your computer without
you knowing what's going on while you browse the Internet, check
your email or just leave your computer connected to the broadband
connection. Don't go yanking that Internet connection yet, there is
an e (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Kevin Souter |
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| Article Title :: Spyware – Your Web Browser is the Culprit! |
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| My first experience with a spyware BHO based infection was several months ago. I had gone through all of the usual steps with the client’s machine to clean it. Ad-Aware was run, Spybot: Search and Destroy was as well. Nothing looked suspicious in the system’s startup. All appeared well, but it wasn’t.After extensive testing and no further symptoms I returned the computer to my client’s home. I hooked it back up, and dialed the internet. Everything so far was progressing smoothly. But, as SOON as I loaded Internet Explorer: BAM the same pop-up advertisements and other annoying things started happening again. With much embarrassment I had to take the computer back to my offic (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Niall Roche |
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| Article Title :: 5 Tips For An Unbreakable Password |
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| Despite the current wave of identity theft and corporate security breaches it's amazing how very few people treat their passwords with any level of seriousness. Most computers users, both at home and in the office, see passwords as a nuisance and therefore make them as easy to remember as possible. This can be a catastrophic mistake.There are certain specific guidelines you need to follow to choose a safe and secure password. Use the following tips as a "how to" on making your password secure.1. Your password must be alphanumeric. That simply means a mixture of numbers and letters such as xpf2778z. Why? When a hacker tries to break into a system they often use what are calle (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Gary Gresham |
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| Article Title :: Reporting Internet Scams |
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| When it comes to reporting Internet scams most of us either don't have a clue who to contact or just ignore them in our email. But according to an FBI report in December 2004, nearly ten million people last year didn't ignore them and fell for the latest Internet scams. The money those victims lost totaled nearly $5 billion.That number of victims and their losses are probably much higher because several cases go unreported every year. People either don't want to admit that it happened to them or have no idea who to report it to.But that's how these thieves get away with Internet email scams for so long without getting caught. The only way to stop these con artists from o (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Manish Katara |
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| Article Title :: Three-pronged Trojan Attack Threatens Security on the Internet |
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| Glieder (Win32.Glieder.AK), Fantibag (Win32.Fantibag.A) and Mitglieder (Win32.Mitglieder.CT) are not names of a modern day version of The Three Musketeers. These are Trojans engineered for a hacker attack that will infect computers and open them for use in further attacks."Combating computer viruses is essentially a game of hide and seek," says Govind Rammurthy, CEO, MicroWorld Technologies, among the leading Security Solutions providers. "Hackers riding piggyback on viruses have only a short window of opportunity to maximize their gain before the viruses are detected, neutralized and logged into Virus Definition databases, 'vaccinating' the system against those strains.With (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Judith Kallos |
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| Article Title :: 3 Steps to Ending Scams and Virus Problems |
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| Watching how the traditional media covers the latest virus or scam would make one think we are all innocent victims and it is the “evil Internet” at work once again. News flash! Innocent? More like uninformed. Victim? In many cases add the word “willing.” The media’s point of view and how they choose to portray these occurrences always makes me chuckle.In the past decade, there has been very little progress when it comes to onliners wanting to acquire just enough information and knowledge to know how to protect themselves. They throw their hands up claiming “I’m not a techie!” while they proceed to want to participate in “technienology.” The truth is t (read full article) |
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