I’ve mentioned it lately, but I’m keeping busy chasing smarter viruses. Now I’ve seen “repeaters,” meaning the anti-malware/virus software did it’s job, but something in the background was watching over the process and did the ET “Phone home” thing, and in one case, within seconds, the malware was coming right back up as...
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Security Issues
My User is being directed into another users folder named TEMP
Malware, BadWare, ScareWare, RansomWare, just make you MadWare. I couldn’t get back far enough to find the cause, but the brief version began with a call well before business hours from a client… I didn’t get to see all the problems, as he tired to fix it first, before deciding this was something different....
Become an Anti-SPAM Warrior!
This morning, I opened my personal email account to find a SPAM email. Very obviously one, sitting right there. So, rather than just delete it, I took a moment to look at it and it revealed some clues as to how it got to me, and by way of that analysis, I...
Understanding Your Digital Landscape Seminar 11/16/2010
From the flyer, regarding the Seminar I’ll be conducting to help business owners, who are not technically enabled, to better understand what makes their business function: Understanding the Digital Landscape What is it? How do you find it? How do you use it effectively? Computers save us time in everything from information storage and retrieval, calculation, graphic design, and...
Isn’t it Ironic? Mac OS X Virus arrives
A sesimic shift in the PC word has just happened: A Mac OS X virus is here, coming in the form of a Java script off of social media. The irony? as I was removing a virus off a “real” PC this morning, my client indicated they might buy a Mac, so they...
LimeWire is Dead…
Thankfully. I know a lot of people liked it, as they could avoid, not only paying retail for music and movies, but not pay anything at all….until some of them had to call me, because their computers were so zapped by malware/spyware/scareware/ransomware from embedded “payloads.” In one case it wasn’t pretty at all, with...
We Infect Our Computers Ourselves
Didn’t bookmark it, but a few weeks back, I saw an article that said greater than 50% of computer infections were no user imposed. What does that mean exactly? It means the people who write and manage software are doing a pretty good job of staying ahead of the hacker crowd, but,we the users,...
They show up at the most vulnerable spots…
The "bad guys" on the Internet have long had a habit of finding the biggest security holes with the greatest potential impact. That's one reason why the Apple computer line has remained effectively virus free (I caught at least one in the early Mac...
Zombie “botnet” Network Busted!
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Back in November, I talked about “zombie computers,” those which had been infected to do the bidding of a master computer, usually to SPAM others. The discussion was about how that type of infection was a usual suspect in a “slow computer.” Some good news was found in my...
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