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Don’t Get Fooled by Rogueware

May 21, 2011
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Anyone who is familiar with using a computer knows that viruses, spyware and malwares are dangerous.  There are many possible things that can or will happen if their computer gets infected. Some of the probable outcomes will be that they will likely lose a lot of files, their programs won’t run, their computer won’t start [...]

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New Trojan Horse Could Take Your Internet Connection Hostage

December 3, 2009
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The antivirus experts at CA have stumbled upon a new trojan horse in the “ransomware” category. That’s the category for software that will demand a ransom, as the name implies. This Russian trojan horse appears to be a download manager called “uFast Download Manager”. Once you launch it, a message will inform you that you’ve [...]

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Are Computer Viruses Spread By The Media?

November 12, 2009
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If you believe what you hear in the media, there are an awful lot of viruses going around. No, I’m not talking about the make-you-sick kind of virus, though they get plenty of airtime too, especially the swine flu. I’m talking about the kind of virus that enters via your Internet connection rather than your [...]

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