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New Infection Targets Explorer.exe

September 28, 2009

This is just an FYI to everybody. I’ve had 6 clients in the past 2 weeks that had their explorer.exe patched with something malicious. This piece of malware only patches explorer.exe and the symptoms are an explorer.exe that takes 5-10 minutes to load the desktop and is not loadable via a command prompt. [...]

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Twitter Updates for 2009-09-26

September 26, 2009

Preventing Drive-By Downloads, http://hubpages.com/t/ced6f #

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Forum Trouble

September 25, 2009

The latest upgrade to the forum didn’t go so well. I’m working on it.

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Rogue AntiVirus is Going Green ;P

September 24, 2009

Now this one is funny. I stopped by Ann’s house last night (one of my clients) and was greeted with a rogue that just made me laugh…Green AV!!! Obviously “going green” is a huge trend right now, so why not have a rogue AV that rides on that green trend. Personally that [...]

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Norton Internet Security 2010 Review

September 22, 2009

I reviewed the installation, configuration and protection aspects of Norton Internet Security 2010.  The video is my longest at 43 minutes.

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FYI – Microsoft Security Essentials Beta Upgrade

September 21, 2009

I got this one from Microsoft today
Dear Beta User,
Thank you for participating in the Microsoft® Security Essentials Beta. Your participation has been instrumental to ensuring the best possible product release quality.
The final version of Microsoft Security Essentials will be released to the public in the coming weeks. If you are running the older version of [...]

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Norton Internet Security 2010 and Rogue Antivirus = Fail

September 17, 2009

Since I’ve finally had some down time I decided to work on my next review: Norton Internet Security 2010.

Here’s a tiny sneak peak on one of my “gripes” with NIS 2010 and plenty of other security applications. Rogue Antivius! Internet security suites seem to be helpless when trying to identify rogue security [...]

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