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Microsoft recently released Microsoft Safety Scanner, a simple on-demand virus scanning tool that works happily alongside other virus protection software. For example, you can use it alongside the always-running anti-virus offered by Microsoft Security Essentials. Viruses Abound Every week I remove viruses from Windows computers. Here’s a common scenario: Someone gets a fake alert like this and realizes that they have a virus. When they call me, I tell them to turn off the computer. This is because a virus can continue to inflict more damage. It can install [...] Wikipedia describes computer phishing scams: Phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Communications purporting to be from popular social web sites, auction sites, online payment processors or IT administrators are commonly used [...] The Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) outlines PC security threats and is based on data captured by Microsoft. Here is a download to the latest volume, covering the first half of 2010. Much of the report covers recent botnets. Botnets start when a virus infects a computer, either through spam or an infected web page. [...] Be careful of fake emails pretending to be from your bank or shopping sites. Many are phishing scams trying to get your personal information. To avoid those scams, it’s best to go directly to the site instead of clicking to the site from an email. Other fake emails are trying to infect your computer with a [...] |
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