If you get an email like this, your friend's account has been compromised. "I'm writing this with tears in my eyes, I and my family presently on a short trip to London, United Kingdom. Unfortunately, I was robbed in the hotel I booked, all my valuables which includes cash, mobile phones were stolen during the…
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Beware: Never Download “Codecs” or “Players” To Watch Videos Online
Sage advice. If you ever see a "must update flash" message, go to Youtube and play any video. IF Youtube confirms it, go directly to Adobe to update it but don't take the word of some random website that's probably trying to infect your PC.
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First email hoax
The first hoax that *I* ever saw on the internet is back. It started in 2005 as a chain-email claiming that, for every time you'd forward it, Bill Gates would give you a dollar. What people didn't (still don't?) realize is that there is no way to track an email unless a copy were sent…
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FBI/DOJ Crytoplocker triumph
A big FBI/DoJ takedown resulted in a whole wackload of servers of the (nasty) Crytolocker virus recently. YAY. But, it's down but not out; other servers are still out there. I'm working on some new features for Constant Care and Weekly Care w/AV subscribers, the first of which will block the Cryptolocker virus from infecting.…
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