Bitdefender Total Security 2012 is the most complete antivirus suite offered by Bitdefender. It offers protection against online threats, malware, spyware, rootkit, trojans, and all kinds of PC viruses. It also is rated as “Very Good” by PCmag and recommended for those who “want protection without drama”. Here’s what you need to do to get
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Quizzes and surveys bring a big chunk of revenue cyber-crooks make on the account of unwary computer users. For about one year, rogue Facebook™ apps have helped them direct large amounts of traffic to survey websites, but they have also started to exploit instant messaging service users. Today we bring under the scope a spam
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You may think that an infected computer is worth nothing Infographic by Computer School
The 72 KB downloader called Trojan.Downloader.Carberp.A packs quite a punch. It is meant to intercept, manipulate and steal the confidential information a computer user might send or receive over the Internet; and what is particularly disturbing about it is the fact that it snatches login credentials from sites that require log-in sessions over an SSL
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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
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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 to
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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
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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
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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
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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
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