Posts Tagged ‘malware’

Windows Update Keeps Re-directing To Google ?

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

Houston Courthouses Down For the three Count

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

How Can I Use A Hosts File To My Advantage?

[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

Re-Evaluation of Dr.Web

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

What to do when infected with spyware/adware

[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

Is Norton better than free?

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