Support of avast! 4.8 is being discontinued, as we all know. However, on some (early Pentium 4 and older Pentium III) computers, particularly those that only run a specific task, we don’t want (or need) to upgrade to avast! 5 (which may slow down these older machines).
Finally, after some searching we found that the [...]
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clicking search page links,results in randomly redirected URL pagessvchost.exe and rundll32.exe used to load malware/spyware DLL
Today, for the second time in a month, I was asked to help remove a spyware/malware from a computer running Windows XP SP3. In both cases, the symptoms were identical. The user immediately noticed something was wrong because their [...]
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This past weekend, I upgraded from a Blackberry Curve 8320 to a Blackberry Bold 9700 and I noticed that there was a new Blackberry Enhanced GMAIL plug-in that gives you access to your GMAIL (and Google Apps Mail) account labels, as well as “mark as spam” and the ability to “star” a message. Great! However, [...]
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I just saw this report on NY Fox 5 News (well it took them a little bit of time to post it to their website):
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/local_news/port-authority-police-radio-concerns-100118
I cannot believe that the NY/NJ Port Authority is not using a “more proprietary” radio frequency. Listening to the radio transmissions, it seems that they are on the same frequency [...]
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Avast tonight released their updated VPS 091203-0 signature file which has been causing a lot of grief to everyone around the world with false-positives for the trojan/worm Win32:Delf-MZG[Trj].
The only fix for now is to disable updates and go back to a previous signature file that is not “bad”.
Luckily I have another machine which has not [...]
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Doing simple searches for your favorite celebrities online can give you results which links to malware. Trying to get some dirt on your favorite celebrity may result in you getting some dirt installed on your computer.
Jessica Biel most ‘dangerous’ celeb in cyberspace. Followed by Beyoncé, Jennifer Aniston, Tom Brady, and Jessica Simpson to [...]
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Since approximately 9am Eastern Time, Twitter has been down. Just now on CNBC, they announced that Twitter came out and confirmed they are under a DoS (Denial-of-Service ) attack.
Source: http://www.cnbc.com/id/32297641/
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How to remove Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant Extension from Firefox 3.0 and Firefox 3.5
I just upgraded to Firefox 3.5 and realized that Microsoft snuck in (spyware-like installation, without user acknowledgment) an extension to Firefox 3.0 that is not compatible with Firefox 3.5, that extension is the Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant 1.0.
Microsoft has released a newer [...]
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Looks like Google Mail (GMAIL) has a global outage today … again ….
Source: http://www.google.com/appsstatus
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To simply highlight something you can just modify your CSS stylesheet styles.css to include something like this:
.highlight { background-color: #FFFF00; }
With WordPress v2.7, you can now mark a post as “Sticky”, which puts it at the top of the page. If you are using a WordPress 2.7 compatible theme, then it [...]
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