Archive for the ‘Viruses/Spywares’ category

Do yourself a favor and STOP adding your name(s) to those types of listing regardless how inviting they might sound! Or make you feel guilty if you don’t! It’s all about getting e-mail addresses and nothing more.

Facebook Quizes and Games

June 28th, 2009

Users must be careful to read the agreements when surfing around Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites. Many of the polls and games and things that require you to intall something, also install a toolbar or other item that can, after a while, start to slow your computer considerably. If you decide [...]

FAQ: The Conflicker Virus

April 3rd, 2009

Well, I’m sure that you have all heard and read about the terrible virus that was going to infect millions of PC based computers.  While the virus is exceptionally tricky, a properly “patched” computer is relatively safe.  Proper patching comes from installing windows updates when your computer prompts you to do so.
This virus originated somewhere [...]

These are the latest ways attackers have found to infect your computer.  You will browse to a site and a window will pop up and look as though it is scanning the files on your computer.  It will then tell you that your computer is infected with any number of viruses and to click a [...]