Archive for March, 2009
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
So why isn’t your virus software protecting you and what can you do to minimize the risk? First, you need to realize that anti-virus software can only protect you from known viruses. Once a virus is identified, the anti-virus publishers must create a method to detect and remove the virus, ...
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
Computer techs are often asked to explain how a computer becomes infected with a computer virus. Many times, a person with a virus infected computer will declare that all they do is access the Internet and read email. They never download programs and they regularly update their anti-virus software. But ...
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Friday, March 27th, 2009
Over the next several days, you will undoubtedly hear an increasing drone of media hype surrounding the Conficker worm (computer virus). The latest variant of the worm, which is much less prevalent then earlier variants, is set to begin looking for its marching orders on April 1st. At this point, ...
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
The cunning crafters of malicious software (malware) have created a highly sophisticated Trojan-horse program that directly targets the theft of financial information. This malicious program seeks to steal sensitive account information from customers of TD Ameritrade, e-Trade, ING Direct ShareBuilder, Options XPress, Scottrade and Vanguard. The Trojan takes advantage of ...
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
We recently made our Blog readers aware of a vulnerability in the Adobe Acrobat and Acrobat Reader software that posed a security risk. Adobe has released the patch for version 9 and all users are urged to install this update as soon as possible.
In our prior post, we mentioned ...
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
Since the evolution of the Internet, people have gone wild about “Technology”, but with every great thing comes some type of problem. Viruses over the last few years have become more frequent to the point that it becomes overwhelming to IT personnel such as Desktop Technicians and Network Administrators. The ...
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