Dante send me a link to another “malware found on purchased laptop” story. The new M&A Companion Touch netbook contained three pieces of malware: An USB worm, a rootkit and a World of Warcraft password stealer. These things seem to happen regularly and it is not only laptops that are affected by this. We have [...]

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While the Conficker worm did not have the serious impact many assumed it would have on April 1 it is still a threat as millions of computer systems are infected with it. We covered Conficker worm detection and removal instructions in March and would like to add the easiest way of detecting a possible Conficker [...]

Categories: Online Services, Security, The Web

Computer Virus Effect Remover is a helpful software program for the Windows operating system after an infection with malicious software like a virus, trojan or worm has occurred. It can be used to remove various effects of those malicious programs. The Open Source software can aid the user in removing effects from the Windows file [...]

Categories: Security, Software, Windows

The amount of security applications for the end user has reached a point where the choice is adding to the insecurity and confusion of the user. So called experts all have their set of tools that they recommend for certain situations but it can happen that you get a set of totally different applications for [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

UnDLL is a specific application for Windows 2000 and Windows XP that can completely remove Dynamic Link Libraries (Dlls) that are currently in use in Windows. This comes in very handy if the computer has been infected by an aggressive virus, trojan or other malicious software but also any other situation where a malicious dll [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Scanning the computer from an online location provides several advantages over the classic local scan. The most prominent one is that the risk of a virus infection of the virus scanner is not present and that the engine used by the scanner is usually up to date. A local virus scanner needs to be updated [...]

Categories: Security, The Web, Tools

McAfee VirusScan Plus 2008 retails for $39.99 for a one year license normally but you can get it for free for a limited time. It runs on computers with Windows 2000 or newer Microsoft operating systems including Windows Vista and protects your system from various threats such as spyware, viruses, trojans and phishing.

Categories: Operating Systems, Security, Software, Spyware, Windows

I did not think that we would see more of offers like the free Kaspersky or AVG on the Internet which were intended for a local audience but spread widely throughout the Internet because of information leaks. It seems that even Symantec is not protected against this kind of leaks.

Categories: Operating Systems, Security, Software, Windows

I received an email today from a reader who told me of a problem that he encountered lately on his computer. The message Say no to drugs appeared whenever he clicked on a shortcut to the My Documents folder. This sounded clearly like a virus and a quick search revealed that it indeed was the I Love Her virus.

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