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 If the antivirus software installed on your mail server is set up to bounce emails with viruses attached, please turn that feature off. Unless you've been in a cave for the past week, you know that tens of millions -possibly hundreds of millions- of emails carrying the sobig.f virus have ...
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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 W32.Blaster.Worm is a worm that exploits the DCOM RPC vulnerability (described in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-026) using TCP port 135. This worm attempts to download and run the Msblast.exe file.http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.htmlW32.Blaster.Worm Removal Tool
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Antivirus vendors have warned about new computer worm which pretends to have been sent by Microsoft technical support.The e-mail containing the worm, dubbed Palyh (pronounced Pale-H) or Mankx, appears to come from support@microsoft.com, but is not from the software company. It contains a file which, upon execution, copies itself to ...
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