AntiVirus

Win32.DownAdUP Virus Removal

February 16, 2010

Several clients and friends have been infected with this virus in the past 24 hours. Once inside your network it spreads rapidly. The virus is a variant of the Conficker virus and exploits a known (and supposedly patched) vulnerability in Microsoft RPC services. A fully patched PC with updated Virus protection should prevent infection but [...]

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Stop Paying for Antivirus

December 29, 2009

This is probably the most surprising advice I give friends and family – Don’t pay for antivirus software. Why? It’s over priced, bloated, and doesn’t offer better protection than the free options. The ugly truth is that I’ve seen hundreds of infections on computers with lapsed subscriptions. The user always meant to get around to [...]

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New and Notable

March 30, 2009

Comodo BackUp – Comodo, the company that makes one of my favorite antivirus programs and PC firewall, has released a new FREE backup utility called Comodo BackUp. I haven’t tested this program personally but their site states that it supports backups to network folders, DVD, CD-RW, and FTP. It looks promising and Comodo has a [...]

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Advanced Spyware Fighting Techniques

December 31, 2008

This is a short late night post that will be expanded into a more comprehensive paper, however, due to the extremely nasty nature of some of the viruses in the wild today I wanted to give a quick intro on how to clean an infected PC. 1. Boot to safe mode, then open msconfig (via [...]

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New AntiSpyware Recommendations

September 16, 2008

I’ve added some new tools to the arsenal and I wanted to give you a brief intro. 1. Anti-Malware Toolkit – This tool is primarily for IT professionals. It is not a antispyware cleaner itself rather it is a wonderful downloader that helps you maintain a “kit” of the most up-to-date tools available. Anti-Malware Toolkit [...]

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The best AntiVirus Ever – ClamWin

July 31, 2008

I loath most Antivirus programs. The corporate AV market is dogged with bloated system hogging software and the consumer market is awash in All-in-1 security packages that bog a computer down worse than most viruses. Antivirus programs require too much of a computer’s hardware resources, they are over designed (read complicated) and in general perform [...]

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Yahoo Mail gives users Trojans

May 1, 2008

You must see this screenshot. The same day I received this (thanks Phizone) I saw another RogueIframe trying to install malicious software on a Christian Women’s Magazine website. This is getting more and more common. I’ll never forget a talk that Acidus gave in which he mentioned that the moment you allow someone else to [...]

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WARNING! XPantivirussite Malicious Software

March 24, 2008

WARNING!!! A colleague of mine saw this on Classmates.com earlier today and I just saw it on a Christian Women’s Magazine site. It is a rouge iFrame with quite a bit of nastiness attached. If you see anything like the popup below Do not click “OK”, Do not click “Cancel”, to close the popup you [...]

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