Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Fresh from penning our Firewall and Virus Alert article, PCStats would like to present the second part of our beginners guide to the less savoury aspects of the internet experience; dealing with the subject of "Spyware." If you've installed a peer-to-peer sharing program such as 'Kazaa Media Desktop' or 'Morpheus', ...
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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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Saturday, March 8th, 2008 HijackThis examines certain key areas of the Registry and Hard Drive and lists their contents. These are areas which are used by both legitimate programmers and hijackers. It's up to you to decide what should be removed. Some items are perfectly fine. You should not remove them. Never remove everything. ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008 A new malware is being distributed that hijacks Internet Explorer start and search settings to one of several different web sites, including coolwwwsearch.com, coolwebsearch.com, youfindall.net, ok-search.com, and white-pages.ws. All of these web sites appear to have an affiliate relationship with coolwebsearch.com in which coolwebsearch pays them for for every visitor ...
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