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Entries Tagged as 'Trojans'

Rootkit and malware cleanup

December 3rd, 2011 · Comments Off

Kent will be on “The Gun Show” with Matt Canovi (KSGF 104.1 – Springfield) this Sunday (December 5th 2011) between 3:00 and 4:00, he will speaking about this topic and personal security with your technology. The show will also be avaliable as a podcast on Monday. You can listen via your computer at http://www.ksgf.com/listenlive Lately we at IFix [...]

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Tags: Malware · Security · Trojans · Virus

Koobface.HJV – Spreading in the wild via FACEBOOK

February 28th, 2011 · Comments Off

Well, last week I finally started a FaceBook account, today I find out about this, though it is no big surprise and why I try very hard to be careful when using a computer period. Sonicwall Research team has discovered a new malicious Worm spreading in the wild. The Worm spreads via Facebook profiles and [...]

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Tags: Malware · Security · Trojans · Virus · Worms

Fake security warnings are on the rise

September 4th, 2009 · Comments Off

Well, it’s that time again. What time you ask? The time for more mal-ware, crap-ware, spy-ware, trojans et al. In the last 3 weeks we have received more calls per day than we receive in a normal month from people who have pop-ups claiming they are infected or who actually clicked on the pop-up and [...]

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Tags: Malware · Security · Soap Box · Trojans · Virus · Worms

Bigfoot, Y2K and the Conficker Worm, where are they?

April 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment

My father is from Oregon and I lived briefly in the beautiful state of Washington. Rumors and legends of a creature commonly known as Bigfoot exist. Local towns and national media have all used these rumors and at times have created hype about the creature, yet all these years later he, she or it still [...]

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Tags: Internet · Malware · Security · Trojans · Virus

AV2009 the fake anti-virus

October 30th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Just a quick “blog” to let you all know to watch out for a fake program called AV 2009 that is popping up and appears to be a Windows Security warning. It is a fake and clicking on it installs several pieces of fraud-ware, mal-ware and crap-ware. This particular program and attempt to get on [...]

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Tags: Internet · Malware · Security · Trojans · Virus