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
Users have a lot to worry about when downloading and playing media files. Are the files legal? Can their computers play the required file formats? Now there's yet another problem to add to the list: Will a media file try to install spyware?
When Windows Media Player encounters a file ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Hackers will keep cranking out exploits that take advantage of known software vulnerabilities because, although patches are available, a minority of machines are fixed, security vendor McAfee said Monday. In releasing its quarterly security analysis, McAfee's "AVERT" virus research team noted that exploited vulnerabilities are becoming a dominant threat to ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Quick! Run for the hills! Firefox spyware is running rampant and infecting every computer in sight!
*sigh*
Sometimes I just want to bang my head on the desk and keep doing it until the desk surrenders unconditionally. If you were to believe several online news sites, there is an epidemic ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Having been a player in the spyware world for so long, nothing really should surprise me anymore. Still, this shocked me. It seems that web sites designed for children visitors are most likely to try to install spyware and/or browser hijackers.
I really can't put my finger on why this surprises ...
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