Posts Tagged ‘malware’

My computer got Hijacked at work, I could not go to windows update, it kept redirecting me to google search.

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 at 08:12 3 comments

Virus Takes Hold of Houston Courthouses. No Report  if any personal information was acquired or compromised.
Link Here
Read the responses. They will leave you laughing.
I wonder if the person who opened the door to the virus still won that free iPhone.
My question is ‘ did that fake virus scanner work yet? did they pay full price?”  [...]

Monday, February 9th, 2009 at 22:10 0 comments

[tags]ip adress,malware,virus,trojan,security,computer,hack,intrusion,backdoor,safety,privacy,protection,prevention[/tags]
A hosts file is a file located in the ETC folder of almost every operating system (with some exceptions). The hosts file is a file that is scanned at the first accesses of a network. Be it a program that you expect to go to the internet or not. Your [...]

Friday, March 7th, 2008 at 11:55 0 comments

After years of not touching Dr.Web, I could not remember, in full, why I did not like it. I could not remember why I did not trust it. It has been at least five years since I tried it and someone I see is trusted by quite a few people recommends it. I gave it [...]

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 at 09:59 1 comment

[tags]adaware, adware, asquared, computer, hijacker, hijackthis, hosts, infected, infection, log, maliciouse program, malware, popup, redirect, scanner, spybot search and destroy, spyware, trojan, virus[/tags]
We all have had infestations, pop ups that never go away, something that changes your home page, or something that redirects the site you type to a totally different site. Even worse [...]

Sunday, February 24th, 2008 at 16:52 1 comment

Let’s look at a free online virus scanner compared to Norton antivirus

I scanned with Norton first and found nothing, then scanned again with bit defender online free virus scanner.
what do you think is the better choice?

A-Squared

Found Riskware.PSWTool.Win32.Brutus

AntiVir

Found SPR/Brutus

ArcaVir

Found Trojan.Psw.Tool.Brutus

Avast

Found Win32:PolyCrypt-ASO

AVG Antivirus

Found nothing

BitDefender

Found Application.PWCrack.Brutus.A

ClamAV

Found Virtool.Brutus

CPsecure

Found PSWTool.W32.Brutus

Dr.Web

Found Tool.BrutusPWS

F-Prot Antivirus

Found security risk or a “backdoor” program

F-Secure Anti-Virus

Found [...]

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 at 16:13 3 comments