Posts Tagged ‘ malware ’

[ July 9, 2010; 1:00 pm; 1:00 pm; ] 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 days (Scores), so don’t tell me there never has been [...]

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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 reading [...]

This has been the week of malware.
I have not had to fix two systems, where somehting crawled in via the internet connection and took over the computer.
Case 1) Total Security 2009. You could not get to the Internet, the screen was resized down to 640×480 (making it difficult to redo things like screen [...]

It’s not a good idea to go out “unprotected computing” these days. Like just about everything else mankind has invented, there are good uses (nuclear power – Lighting up a city) and bad uses (nuclear power again – Blowing up a city). The bad uses aren’t even to the users behind the keyboard [...]

Topic for the day:  The bad guys and the battle for your processor time.
Slow computer?  Not uncommon these days.  There are many causes, some just because the software you are using is overcoming the capabilites of the computer you have, but more often than not, unless you just decided to become a big time video [...]