Friday, May 30th, 2008
The computer attackers who took down Comcast's homepage and webmail service for over five hours Thursday say they didn't know what they were getting themselves into.
In an hour-long telephone conference call with Threat Level, the hackers known as "Defiant" and "EBK" expressed astonishment over the attention their DNS hijacking has ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
This page was designed to be PC Sympathy's One-Stop Source for protecting your PC, online and offline, from viruses and other malicious programs that you may encounter.
Each section below will provide you with the resources you need for various levels of protection. While there are many choices out there, ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Makers of antispyware and antivirus programs, pay attention to this article.
An ugly trend is developing in the world of antispyware. It is my belief that, very soon, all current tools and methods used to detect and remove malware will become obsolete. Very soon, malware will be able to load ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
I now have even greater sympathy for people suffering a spyware infection than ever before. I spent the better part of Tuesday night fighting off the worst spyware infection I have ever seen or heard of.
Someone was kind enough to donate a copy of VMWare for me to use ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Spyware is not just annoying. Spyware is hitting all of us in the wallet as tech support firms must deal with millions of customers infected by it.
Some studies claim that as many as 97% of all personal computers may be infected by various spyware programs. Personally, I believe that number ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
The Internet Storm Center has announced a very scary discovery. They have found a browser hijacker, installed as a Browser Helper Object (BHO), that will monitor what are supposed to be secure, encrypted browsing sessions and steal passwords. These passwords then are forwarded to a web based script at www.refestltd.com. ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Mike Healan
March 23, 2004
If you've ever been infected with a browser hijacker, you know what an infuriating situation it is. For all intents and purposes, your $3,000 computer is converted into a source of revenue for some fly-by-night web site unable to generate legitimate web traffic. Once ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
"Many of you may have heard of a program called Patchou's "Messenger Plus". I used it myself once, before I discovered Trillian. Similar to the many front end programs for Internet Explorer (Avant browser, MyIE2, etc), Messenger Plus adds a user interface to Microsoft's MSN Messenger that contains extra features. ...
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