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Only A Little RAM? Use Avira.

February 21, 2010

I get this question almost daily -
“What Antivirus should I use if I only have 512 MB of RAM?”
Use Avira Anti-Vir.  It’s got one of the best detection rates out there and runs really well on older PC’s with RAM in the 512 – 1000 MB range.

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Twitter Updates for 2010-02-21

February 21, 2010

mmmm…boneless hotwings while I paint my "man cave". #
dear lord…Shanti Wintergate is soooooo hot. #
I've never used twitter sober….it's a drunk tool for sure…. #
ijustine is hawt too…of course…i'm sure the twitter would knows… #
anyway…back to whatever… #
hard to believe I was in the same class with the guy who invented twitter….i'm such a loser…. [...]

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Twitter Updates for 2010-02-21

February 21, 2010

mmmm…boneless hotwings while I paint my “man cave”. #
dear lord…Shanti Wintergate is soooooo hot. #
I’ve never used twitter sober….it’s a drunk tool for sure…. #
ijustine is hawt too…of course…i’m sure the twitter would knows… #
anyway…back to whatever… #
hard to believe I was in the same class with the guy who invented twitter….i’m such a loser…. [...]

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Moving to Thesis Theme

February 19, 2010

This blog needs a big overhaul and one of the new changes will be a professional theme called Thesis.   Remove-Malware.com will look a little weird for the next few days (until I can get all the changes straightened out).

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Supplement Your Antivirus

February 17, 2010

Here are 3 applications that I have personally used this year to add some further protection to PC’s running standard AV without a significant slowdown to the PC:

Threatfire – Blocks unknown threats based on their behavior.
Sandboxie – Isolates your browser from the rest of your OS.  Threats can be automatically deleted every time you close [...]

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WS2_32.DLL Patched: This Malware is Not Fun at All…

February 11, 2010

I’ve been seeing a huge increase in machines that are infected with a patched WS2_32.dll.  WS2_32.dll is part of Windows Sockets Library and is used to configure/maintain network connections.  When WS2_32.Dll becomes patched you’ll notice the following behavior:

Slowly loading webpages.  The pages have a 3-5 second delay since the patched DLL is executing malicious code [...]

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Twitter Updates for 2010-02-10

February 10, 2010

I uploaded a YouTube video — Sup with the Avast Sandbox? http://youtu.be/1fll-iRLJ_4?a #
I uploaded a YouTube video — avast 5 free final http://youtu.be/qVxlZOoUhV0?a #

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