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Is it time to buy those boxes of ammo and head for the hills? We’ll see. This Wednesday, April 1st the Conficker worm will do something. No one knows what. But it has security experts up late. It is believed that at one point Conficker was on 6% of the world’s PCs. This has been [...] SUPERAntiSpyware is very good antispyware that is free for personal use. While Antivirus software is very important, Antispyware can help too in making sure that you aren’t getting hijacked by Spyware, Adware, Malware, Trojans, Dialers, Worms, and Key Loggers. You can run it whenever you want, not needing to take up resources when you aren’t [...] Microsoft recently reported that their Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT), which was included in Windows Updates on December 9, 2008, has now removed over 400,000 copies of the nefarious “Antivirus 2009″. An Arlington, VA client was recently infected by that Antivirus 2009 malware. It has been the most pernicious malware that I have seen recently, [...] A recent Sterling, Virginia customer got hit by a fake warning that her computer had been infected by a virus. But it was just a pop-up browser window that, when clicked, actually installed malware on her computer. To add insult to injury, the malware installed is called Antivirus XP 2008. So you think it’s there [...] This NY Times article talks about how a gang in a Russian town is using Microsoft administrative tools to infect private and government computers. A few excerpts: The gang was identified publicly in May by Joe Stewart, director of malware research at SecureWorks, a computer security firm in Atlanta. Mr. Stewart, who has determined that [...] |
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