April 8th a new update was made available to machines infected with Conficker variant C

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Spybot search and destroy has dropped to the bottom of the list I still use it on my computer for my web-browser immunization.

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Is your security software up to date? I update mine 3 times a day just to be safe as well as I run multiple programs to ensure that I am covered for security.

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These common mistakes can ruin your computer or invite identity theft

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While the survival time measured varies quite a bit across methods used, pretty much all agree that placing an unpatched Windows computer directly onto the Internet in the hope that it downloads the patches faster than it gets exploited are odds that you wouldn't bet on in Vegas.

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An internal British Telecom report on a secret trial of an ISP eavesdropping and advertising technology found that the system crashed some unsuspecting users' browsers, and a small percentage of the 18,000 broadband customers under surveillance believed they'd been infected with  …

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Yahoo and McAfee announced a partnership Tuesday under which potentially unsafe Web sites appearing in Yahoo search results will be flagged as risky.

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The new term was grayware, an apt description given the legal gray area these programs inhabit.

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A brand new blog on various topics about adware and spyware. Lengthy articles are recorded using realistic sounding, computer generated voices. New articles are posted weekly along with the mp3 recording of the article.

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Long touted as the secure space for social networking, and largely true, Facebook has finally been hacked. The attack comes as a Secret Crush request, a widget that the user downloads to find out who on the network has eyes for them.

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Check your list twice, for Spyware

This season, if you have receive a new computer or new software, check em for the gifts you might not know about. Many computers come with bundled software that includes Adware, Malware and even Spyware. You may not find it until you launch the software program.

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What is Windows Messenger Spam The Spyware Fool

Do you hate popups? I know I do! Just when you thought you'd gotten used to the constant barrage of advertisements, for the last few years, you're now expected to deal with Windows Messenger spam.

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Microsoft ships Windows Defender with Vista, however, Spybot-S&D can now easily integrate into the Vista Security Center; which will then monitor if Spybot-S&D is up-to-date and whether the permanent protection (TeaTimer) is running or not.

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Free copies of some of Microsoft's office software will soon be available. The software giant said it would make ad-supported copies of the Works package available within "months".

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It's such a tremendously bad idea that it's almost bound to succeed.

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As if learning about one new aspect of Windows today wasn't enough, a duo of recent patent applications may lend a hand in discovering a few new, um, features about the Windows of the future.

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Spyware and Adware (sometimes called 'malware'), are computer programs that are used to 'spy' on your computer movements. Both of these types of program are dangerous and need to be taken seriously when protecting your identity.

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The winner of this antivirus sweepstakes was a product called Avira, which managed to detect and defeat 71 percent of the unknown malware. Right behind it was the equally-obscure NOD32, which swept away 68 percent of the threats.

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Google is now promising to identify all web pages on the internet that could be malicious - with its powerful crawling abilities & data centers, the company is in an excellent position to do this.

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You are starting to become paranoid about viruses and you are thinking you have to do something about it. This is a very good starting point, too much Windows PC is compromised today and the problem is localized between the keyboard and the monitor: you.

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Apparently undeterred by its first two misfires with the Spyware Control Act, Utah has tried to enact regressive anti-consumer legislation for a third time. This time, they've stopped messing around with adware vendors.

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Top Tips To Protect Your Security Online

These are some of the most dangerous things you can do online. They are the most common methods people use to place themselves in danger on the Internet.

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Julie Amero, a 40-year-old substitute teacher from Connecticut is facing up to 40 years in prison for exposing her seventh grade class to a cascade of pornographic imagery.

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Dutch prosecutors are pursuing jail terms for two men charged in a large-scale computer hacking scheme in which more than 1 million computers may have been infected with adware and other malicious programs.

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Block Online Adservers with Hosts file

It all started this morning with a pre-caffeine accidental right click on a banner ad in that popup Yahoo Messenger displays on startup.

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