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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 31st, 2009
  • Comments: 8

Conficker Worm Detection And Removal

By now you might have heard about the latest worm that is plaguing Internet users world wide. It goes by the name of Conficker (or Downadup)and comes in the variants A,B and C with c being the most evolved variant. To put it simple: Conficker uses a Windows vulnerability that was discovered in September 2008 [...]

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Categories: Security, Windows

  • Author: Cheryl
  • Published: Dec 5th, 2007
  • Comments: 16

I dnt hate Mozilla but use IE or else….

I dnt hate Mozilla but use IE or else… is what I got when I tried to start Firefox sometime back. Just as the window opened, a box with this message popped up and then disappeared, taking my Firefox window along with it. Internet Explorer seemed to work until I tried opening Youtube. Then, I [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Security

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Dec 7th, 2005
  • Comments: 1

Anatomy of a failed virus attack

Jim Kissel of Open Source Migrations Limited wrote a nice article about a malicious email attack he encountered recently. He analyzes the email received and gives tips to secure Thunderbird, the free email program they use.

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Categories: Email, Knowledge

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