April 22, 2014 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
Spam Fighting: Faux Holiday Edition Today’s Top Threat Downloader.Ajuxery Downloader.Ajuxery is a stereotypical downloader Trojan where once it is on your computer it will open the gates and flood your computer with more viruses. While the virus isn’t necessarily destructive, the viruses that it invites can be. The mor
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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 18, 2014 · Cybersecurity & Malware
Join The Tech Army, And Be The First Line Of Defense! Today’s Top Threat Infostealer.Dande The Infostealer.Dande is a pretty straight forward name and a pretty straight forward virus! The virus gets into your system and sends sensitive information back to its host. This is the type of virus that makes you want to chang
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April 17, 2014 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
Android VS Apple: Round 154,678, The Eternal Debate Continues! Today’s Top Threat W32.Mezit!inf The w32.Mezit!inf is a standard level Trojan, it will get into your computer traditionally by downloading a program or opening an email and open up your computer for a whole host of other viruses. Today’s Top Stories Android
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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 15, 2014 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
Privacy In This Age? Yes, I Will Accept The Changes, Wait You Need Access To What? Today’s Top Threat SONAR.RogueAV!gen23 The Sonar.RogueAV!gen23, is as the name implies, the twenty third iteration of a fake “anti-virus” virus. If you are asking yourself if there is anything different from this one and the past version
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April 14, 2014 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
Lucky Day For Me! Not Lucky For 552M People In 2013. Today’s Top Threat SONAR.Zbot!gen3 The Sonar Zbot is a variant of the older Zeus bot, it is designed to steal private information and pass it back to an offsite source. The most common way to get this virus is through spam emails and
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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 8, 2014 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
Copycat apps and an official end of Windows XP support. Today’s Top Threat Trojan.Shylock!gen9 The Shylock virus seems a bit underwhelming at first read, but when a virus adds malicious code to network traffic it can get really annoying. Usually when you see a Shylock style virus you tend to have a few of
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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
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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 3, 2014 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
Dutch Glow – Amish Wood Milk and fake Anti Virus programs! Today’s Top Threat Trojan.FakeAV!Gen 120. If you do not know what that is then you should be happy! Here is what it is; it is a virus that masquerades as an “Anti-Virus” program on your computer. It will pop up and say, you have
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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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