An application that offers to unlock iPhones is actually designed to hijack internet connections on compromised Windows PCs, security watchers warn.
Spam messages direct potential victims to a website that offers links to download a Windows executable called blackra1n.exe. The application claims to offer an unlock utility but instead it changes default DNS settings on infected
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The web is flooded with ideas for protecting Windows computers against viruses. Even with scores of ideas to prevent virus it’s difficult to avert the new types of online attacks. Viruses remain the most common type of threat, but hackers today use vicious multi-layered attacks, such as worms in instant message that are linked
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Do you really need administrator privileges?
Los Angeles security firm BeyondTrust has released an analysis of Microsoft’s 75 security bulletins last year. They came to the startling conclusion that if users had operated their computers without administrative rights they would have eliminated 64 percent of their risk from Microsoft vulnerabilities!
By examining all of the published Microsoft
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False Positive on Vista X64
Due to a recent update for Windows 64-bit systems it is possible that BitDefender detects several Windows and BitDefender files as infected with Trojan.FakeAlert.5 .
If you are able to log on to Windows but BitDefender is not working please follow these steps:
1.Save this patch and run it on your PC:
If you are able to log on to Windows but BitDefender is not working please follow these steps:
1. Save this patch and run it on your PC:
If you are using BitDefender 2010 click here
If you are using BitDefender 2009 click here
2. Reboot your PC and perform a BitDefender update to make sure you have the
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Due to a recent update for Windows 64-bit systems it is possible that BitDefender detects several Windows and BitDefender files as infected with Trojan.FakeAlert.5 .
If you are using Windows XP and are able to boot in Windows, but BitDefender is not working, please follow these steps:
1.Save this patch and run it on your PC:
If you
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Several security companies (McAfee, Sophos) are currently warning their users about a widespread scam that is targeting Facebook users per email.
The attackers are sending out emails that claim that the Facebook password has been changed and that a new password can be found in an attached document.
The attachment is called “Facebook_details_[some number].zip”. This attachment is
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McAfee AV have predicted that the 400 percent increase in rogues (also called “scareware”) they saw in 2009 will continue this year. The loss to victims will be on the order of $300 million they also estimated.
Rogues are thieving malicious programs that pretend to be legitimate anti-malcode products. They are real money makers for organized
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Today, spam e-mails account for over 80% of all e-mail traffic and their volumes increase daily. Spam filter program is used for protecting spam email (unsolicited email) for Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Mail and Mozilla Thunderbird. In the following, you will find five most popular free spam filter software programs which are available for you
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Personal firewall software is designed for another security reason. The software is used for hacker protection, unauthorized access through network and internet. Firewall will alert the message when there is any access to computer. With firewall software, user can restrict access to programs in computer. Some personal firewall programs such as COMODO Internet Security has
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