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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 1st, 2009
  • Comments: 6

Trend Micro RootkitBuster

Most security software programs that are available these days provide protection against rootkits as well. There are on the other hand a few security programs that deal solely with rootkits. One of them is Trend Micro’s RootkitBuster which has just been released in a new version which adds the ability to detect rootkits that hook [...]

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Categories: Security, Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 25th, 2009
  • Comments: 21

How To Run Commercial Antivirus Software Without Paying For It

This article is not about illegal methods of obtaining software products. But read on if you are interested in how you can protect your computer with the latest antivirus software without having to pay for it. The principle is simply. Most antivirus companies are offering test versions of their products. These versions can usually be [...]

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Categories: Security, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Aug 1st, 2008
  • Comments: 1

New Phishing Emails Emerge

The usual phishing email is still claiming that “action” is required because of something that just happened. This can be a fake eBay purchase, PayPal or bank account transactions. While these methods are still highly successful it becomes widely known by the general Internet user that they should not click on emails that contain such [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Security

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 17th, 2008
  • Comments: 5

Trend Micro RUBotted

Trend Micro RUBotted is a BETA program that scans your system for bot related activity protecting it effectively from being hijacked and misused for criminal activity. The computer is monitored for activity that is either harmful for the computer it is running on or other computers that are affected by actions from the monitored computer.

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Categories: Operating Systems, Security, Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 11th, 2008
  • Comments: 2

When on Digg be careful

Trend Micro have published another excellent article on their malware blog entitled A Tangled Web … of Malware. It describes how hackers use popular media websites to spread malware and how their methods become more sophisticated by each passing week. The one published on the Trend Micro blog is interesting because of two aspects.
The first [...]

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Categories: Hacking, Security, The Web

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