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Our techs often ask that visitors post their Hijack This logs on the forum. It is a great tool for spotting and removing malicious code from your PC. But as you can see from the size of the log, they take up a lot of server space and also contain links to bad neighborhoods. For those two...
PCTechBytes understands your security questions, so we have devoted an entire page to help you understand spyware and viruses. http://www.pctechbytes.com/security-zone.htm Hijack This tutorials are also available here for those who need access to them.
Kaspersky has been one of the top commercial-grade antivirus programs the past few years.* They now have an online virus scanner that can help you check your PC for viruses for free. If you do not have an antivirus program running, be sure to give it a try.* Or you can use it occasionally to ...
Hi All I am asking for a favour off you all. Ok here is what has happened.. My mother in laws bank card details have been linked and the bank thought it was via the internet as they do not have her pin so... I went round and offered to help them (they dont know much about computers). They...
Microsoft has just released the Microsoft Security Essentials--their free real-time protection solution for malware. Download it here Virus, Spyware & Malware Protection | Microsoft Security Essentials and let us know what you think.
Being the sort of guy who likes to use keyboard shortcuts rather than having to reach for the mouse all the time, I felt a bit hostile once I got my new Macbook Pro. I knew how to do task X or Y on Windows with a few keystrokes, but having moved to Mac OS X (read 10 not X, as I made the mistake!),...
Has anyone else heard that Google links were being redirected to malicious sites? I got an email from ZoneAlarm warning me, but it also said to be fully protected I had to buy their product because the free version didn't protect against the threat. I deleted it and can't recall what the name of...
Has any body ever used avast security suite? My dad uses it and it is great but i want other opinions on the software before i install it on my computer.
I have to securely delete some files on a disk and plan to use the free Eraser program. I have read claims that people were able to recover files after 23 passes. I find that hard to believe, anyone have experience with recovering files after secure overwriting?
I found this article on Ars Technica. Keep your passwords and logins off of your computer. Write them down on paper. http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2009/05/researchers-hijack-botnet-score-56000-passwords-in-an-hour.ars I must admit I'm guilty of this myself. Not for much longer...
Hey guys, usually I'll always delete my %TEMP% contents to free up space and put less on the HD. Recently, I haven't been able to delete these two files: ~DF5AEE.tmp ~DF4411.tmp If I try to delete them, or move them to a different place, I always get the message: "This file is being used...
the St. Pete Times had an article today regarding a problem with "tinyurl.com/kwh81s" indicating it allows hackers to take over your PC> They say so far Microsoft has not come up with a patch for this. The newspaper says users should disable it but don't say how. Your comments appreciated:mad:
ok playing world or warcraft i have been getting alot of disconnections. last time i had this problem i found malware in my pc. AVG and adaware have not found anything what eles can i do to make sure that there is nothing in my pc hiding?
I just read an article about Panda Cloud, it sure sounds like a better free antivirus program than both AVG and Avast. What do you guys think? Thank you in advance for your advice.
Hey everybody... I just signed up here today. So, greetings! I am the IT administrator of a small fire alarm business (15 employees or so). In our office, we have a single server with a Client/Server version of TrendMicro Anti-Virus installed. This protects each machine that is on our network...
Anyone uses Kaspersky Internet Secruity or used it before? Is this is software good? i need some suggestions, just changed from AVG to this.
My nephew bought a computer and was talked into Trend Micro anti Virus. http://tinyurl.com/cv8m9r Thoughts? Are the free ones better? He was getting updates for it and was prompted to restart his computer. Now it won't start. There's a start up repair screen that comes up and tells me...
Has anyone heard any news on that April Fool's Day Conficker virus scare? I took the time to call most of my repeat customers to make sure they had updated their antivirus software last week. Now people are asking if the virus ever did anything and i'm having problems finding any updated news on...
If you are infected with the Conficker virus, try this tool to remove it. As always, backup your data before you do this. http://threatpost.com/content/how-fight-network-worm-conficker
I've Window XP and only recently did I start to receive this security warning, it happens every few minutes. Why and how to stop it? The warning says: "The current web page is trying to open a site in your trusted site lise. Do you want to allow this?" Thank you in advance for your reply.
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/home/index.html http://free.avg.com/download?prd=afe
Which one is more efficient? Spybot or Adware? Also, when I google them, there are numerous links offering downloads. What's the general guideline for choosing one link among so many? To the Admin, would you please change the word "Adaware" to "Adware" in the title of this thread? Thanks.
The last couple days i have noticed that it has no updates in the Firewall / Alerts & Logs / Log Viewer. It is empty. It had some entries from a week agok, so i cleared the list. Now it is just blank... but Zone Alarm appears to be working otherwise.. Why is this blank is it not working right?...
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