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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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....
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...
Tuesday Tech Tips
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...
Tuesday Tech Tips
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...
Tuesday Tech Tips
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...
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