Last week saw the addition of another chapter to the never-ending malware saga that is Adobe Reader. A clever exploit for a vulnerability was uncovered by researcher Mila Parkour and Reader as well as Acrobat currently remain unpatched. PC World reports that the exploit uses rigged PDF files that include code to exploit the zero-day [...]
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Have you changed the password on your router?
Did you know someone can change the setting on your router so all your internet traffic goes through their servers and from this they can get your bank details as well as other personal information? Routers come with a standard password and I usually use this to access clients routers without even asking if [...]
fake UPS email
Today I received an email from my ISP saying it had quarantined an email from someone at UPS. I found this strange as I was not expecting anything from UPS and that my ISP thought it was a virus. As I always check these things out I phoned UPS and even before I got [...]
Google warns about scareware fake anti virus software
I have tweeted about this before but now Google has started to warn about it. Scareware is where a malicious piece of software disguises itself as a normal program but then demands money from you otherwise your something will happen. I have always seen the fake anti virus ones that pop up and can [...]
Zeus botnet virus, are you infected
Trusteer, a security company, reports that Zeus is the number 1 botnet with over 3.6 million pc’s infected and that is only in America. Now that is a scary figure. What is a botnet and what does Zeus do? Botnet is a term for a collection of softyware agents or robots that run autonomously [...]
Is your XP updating?
This might sound like a silly question if you have selected automatic updates, but times have changed and Microsoft have introduced a new rule. If Microsoft detect a root kit virus they will not install any more updates. Why? In February Microsoft issued an update that conflicted with a root kit virus and left [...]
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