The Weekly Geek

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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Here we go again, the Fake AV criminals have come up with a new attack, the SonicWALL research team has received reports of a mass SQL injection infecting millions of websites. It is likely that the back-end databases of these websites were compromised leading to this SQL injection. Malicious script codes were inserted and being served [...]

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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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It took a while for me to confirm this, McAfee claims it will reimburse users whose computers had to be serviced due to a faulty update it issued last week that caused people’s computers to act all wacky. We had a few show up at our shop and it took some major surgery to get them [...]

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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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