Anti Virus/Anti Spyware Suite Shootout Results
Here are the results of a very well done study on the effectiveness of current anti-virus/anti-spyware suites.Review of the review here.The top of the current list is Nortons latest suite.They did not...
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Here we go again – Spyware and bogus Antivirus
Folks, I can’t stress enough the importance of keeping your Operating system patched, up to date and running the latest versions of available applications – especially web browsers! Several new threats...
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I have mentioned many times before of the need to update your computer Operating Systems, Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware applications. But I also must mention again to please update your applications as...
View ArticleMcAfee fix for killed XP machines
I am not a fan of McAfee security and AV products and haven’t been for years. Their software has become a huge drain on system resources and worse, seems to get more false positives than actually...
View ArticleCheckPoint/Zone Alarm Lose with fake threat
I’ve written about this tactic before – using ‘rogue/fake’ threat or infection warnings to distribute REAL malware. This is one very effective way to get unsuspecting or untrained people to...
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More Maleware in the wild ‘E-Card’
Hi folks just thought I’d pass this on. The folks at Shadow Server have found this propagating. There are loads of new security threats – many using tried and true vectors. This one uses the ‘E-Card’...
View ArticleMac OS X Trojan catches Sophos’ eye
Two very recent article point out what most security people know and the rest should know – NO technology, especially computers connected to any network, are completely secure! An article here points...
View ArticleMore Rogue Antivirus/Spyware infecting many!
Users are being ‘Tricked’ into infecting themselves with trojans/virus’ This has been used on probably 1.5 million websites! And it is increasing! UPDATE! Here is even more evidence that this is HUGE!...
View ArticleLatest Mac Malware news 06-04-2011
The Mac Trojan/Malware ‘MacDefender’ now calls itself ‘Mac Shield’. The malware keeps changing names and looks but still is relatively the same as before. However it is still infecting loads of...
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More Scareware going around–Fake disk errors and hidden files.
More security news. There is another round of Scareware/Trojans going around that trick users into infecting their machines http://bit.ly/zqaBJK and then ransoming a fix for money. This new threat,...
View ArticleMicrosoft takes Antivirus/Protection to a new level
I no longer use any ‘always on’ third party Antivirus software on any of my Operating systems, and I haven’t for some time. I rely heavily on my expertise, current systems, and applications setups and...
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