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Black Screen Of Death Caused By Trojan:Win32/Daonol

I’ve seen a lot of reports that users are experiencing a black screen of death when some Windows updates are applied. Windows updates do NOT cause the black screen of death, however malware already present on the PC does, specifically Trojan:Win32/Daonol (which is an info stealer/redirector). The latest versions of Trojan:Win32/Daonol are very buggy and [...]

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AV2009 Still Going Strong

I had a very busy week cleaning AV2009 on home and business computers. I’m not sure what’s going on, but a lot of people are being infected with adware that redirects search queries to AV2009 affiliates. Some of the new AV2009 adware even prevents users from browsing the internet by “blocking” the website they are [...]

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Nasty Little Worm – Conficker

I hate worms. They get into everything portable (USB devices) and now this new Conficker worm spreads from computer to computer via RPC calls on machines that are not patched with MSO8-067.  Conficker A, B and C currently download rogue anti-malware applications and keyloggers. Obviously the best way to protect yourself (and family) against machine [...]

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