Tonight, one of my new clients asked me to clean up a rogue anti-virus app and install his new anti-virus, Trend Micro Titanium (…whatever that means). I popped the disc in, clicked install and bam! Check out the screen shot below (click to enlarge): Are you F’n kidd’in me? Trend Micro is NOT compatible with [...]
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Fake YouTube Messages – Your Account is Infected!
I was just doing my morning email chores when I stumbled across an email from my YouTube account. This is what it said: s0m3b0de has sent you a message: Your Account is Infected Your YouTube account has been infected with a self mailing worm and will be terminated in approx. 48 hours if malicious activities [...]
When Signatures Go Bad…Ouch!
I’m really amazed that this doesn’t happen more often. I suppose it underscores the need for moving to a HIPS based AM solution. “Users of the BitDefender antivirus software started flooding the company’s support forums Saturday, apparently after a faulty antivirus update caused 64-bit Windows machines to stop working. The company acknowledged the issue in [...]




