April 29, 2014 · Computer Repair
Retro Style Viruses, A Whole New Threat Today’s Top Threat Bloodhound.Flash.24 The Bloodhound.Flash is a virus that is “attempting to exploit the Adobe Flash Player Buffer Overflow Vulnerability(CVE-2014-0515).” Which simply put means that through a weakness in Adobe Flash your information, including usernames and pass
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April 29, 2014 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
Right now, Microsoft is hurrying to fix a problem in its popular Web browser that was found over the weekend by security experts at FireEye. This bug is something that hackers have caught on to and are exploiting it as hard as they can. Basically, hackers have began setting up websites that they are tricking
Read more →April 28, 2014 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
Microsoft To Windows XP Users About Zero Day Bug: No Updates For You! Today’s Top Threat Backdoor.Zegost!gen2 The Backdoor.Zegost virus is a typical Trojan virus that will open the “back door” of your computer and let all of his buddies in to wreak havoc on your system. Symantec classifies this virus as easy to remove
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April 25, 2014 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
If AOL Can Get Hacked, So Can You! Today’s Top Threat IOS.Passrobber The IOS.Passrobber is a very serious threat that is easily dealt with. As the name suggest this virus aims for the IOS systems, including the iPhone. Once the virus is on your system it will start stealing information including Apple ID’s and
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April 24, 2014 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
Safety Tips, The Business Edition Today’s Top Threat Trojan.Shredboom The Shredboom is a typical trojan that will perform a host of malicious attacks on your computer. The most noticable effect of this virus will be how it effects the speed of your computer. Today’s Top Stories Keeping Your Business Safe From Attack “A
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April 21, 2014 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
Bloodhound and Heartbleed… The Internet Sounds Like A Horror Movie Today’s Top Threat Bloodhound.Exploit.551 This ominously named virus works off of the “Microsoft Word Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability” and will cause your computer to be part of a bot net ‘denial of service’ attacks. The resulting impact will not
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April 16, 2014 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
Sorry Rover, Cellphones Are A Man’s Best Friend. Today’s Top Threat VBS.Crigent The VBS.Crigent is a buddy virus! A buddy virus is when it is on your computer it will try to download and install other malware and viruses. Unfortunately there are no big warning signs on your computer that warns you that you
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April 10, 2014 · Computer Repair
Which get rich quick scheme is faster, bitcoins or spam? Today’s Top Threat Microsoft Word CVE-2014-1761 Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability Yesterday we covered a vulnerability in Internet Explorer, today it looks like it’s an issue with Microsoft Word. It looks like it is up to the same shenanigans as the Internet
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April 9, 2014 · Computer Repair
Corruption, vulnerability, and DOS attacks. No this isn’t your local government it’s the internet! Today’s Top Threat Microsoft Internet Explorer CVE-2014-1760 Memory Corruption Vulnerability Big scary name for today’s top threat! With a scary name comes scary repercussions of having this particular virus. The most com
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April 7, 2014 · Computer Repair
Brightly colored cremation services and embalming? You had me at brightly colored, I will take two! Today’s Top Threat Trojan.Asprox.B The asprox.B virus is a Trojan Horse virus and a botnet. It attaches itself onto your computer generally through emails and will spam out emails once it is connected to your computer, s
Read more →April 4, 2014 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
Today’s Top Threat O97M.Crigent This virus hides itself inside Microsoft Word and Excel files, and then connects to remote hosts worldwide to download more heinous files. The best defense is to make sure you have a secure firewall up and running. Today’s Top Stories In 2013, the malware UPATRE was noted as one of the
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April 4, 2014 · Computer Repair
Windows XP was launched in 2001 and was the ideal operating system for a very long time; it set the benchmark for business operating systems and home use. Throughout the years of updates and support it was the operating system you could rely on. Well if you are unaware, the support for Windows XP ends
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April 1, 2014 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
Security is a word that means a lot to people. Whether it mean job security, or making sure you are financially safe and sound, security is a particular word that isn’t taken lightly by many people. This is especially true when dealing with particular documents and trying to maintain a sense of privacy for yourself.
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February 24, 2014 · Business IT Tips
It’s almost unfair to watch movies these days. Think about it. How many time have you been watching a movie, only to see some amazing fictional technology that you wished was real? Everything from “I, Robot“, to “The Minority Report“, to even the recent “Iron Man” movies show some type of futuristic technology that has
Read more →February 18, 2014 · Microsoft, Windows & Software
It should come as a surprise to no one that we rely on apps and technology for almost everything we do these days. Basically anything that you can think of has an app. Apple’s early marketing campaign for apps, “There’s an app for that.”, has pretty much become the truth. Now, even though this is
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