A Taiwan discount personal computer manufacturer has begun a voluntary recall of desktop computers delivered to Japan after it found they had been infected with a virus before shipment. ASUSTek Computer Inc. has shipped about 4,500 Eee Box desktop PCs to Japan, selling about 300 at retail outlets nationwide since their launch here on Oct. [...]

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Hackers have broken into Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email account and posted many of the messages and email addresses of Palin’s family and friends to other sites across the Internet. Screengrabs and what appears to be a full listing of her email contacts have been posted on the web, including on WikiLeaks, raising concerns about the [...]

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This is a new worm that attacks any version of Windows. The worm spreads itself by attaching to any type of fixed or removable hard drive, A-Z. If you are infected, the worm will create the following files: C:\lo.tmp %SYSTEM%\wuauclt.exe %SYSTEM%\dllcache\wuauclt.exe %SYSTEM%\wsotdet.dll %SYSTEM%\wssndet.dll It will also drop autorun files on drives that it infects. The [...]

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This is a Trojan that hides itself as a common media file. When the user attempts to open the file, it then downloads malware from an external server. The malware installed on the system will then lead to further serious problems. If a user attempts to open this trojan, Windows Media Player will open, but [...]

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Yet another round of spam e-mails that instructs recipients to click on a link that downloads a virus is making the rounds. This time the e-mails include a link that contains an article about the FBI and the popular social networking site, Facebook. The FBI is following reports of recent spam e-mails spreading the Storm [...]

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The latest high risk adware currently infecting PCs is known as Adware.PlayMP3z.B This form of adware is disguised as a codec for viewing media files, or for listening to audio files. As mentioned in an earlier post, beware of any media file that requires any type of download in order to play. Adware.PlayMP3z.B will prompt [...]

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Key Government websites in the UK have been infected by cyber-criminals aiming to steal browsers’ personal details, it was reported today. Eastern European hackers are suspected of placing the Asprox virus on more than a thousand British websites, including those run by the NHS and a local council, in the past two weeks. Experts described [...]

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McAfee has recently reported that a very large number of fake MP3 files have been spreading across P2P networks.  The bad news is that one of these MP3 files can very easily infect your PC with dangerous malware or viruses. The infection is not limited to MP3 files, but can also be present in MPG [...]

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Turkish hackers have taken advantage of an email address that appeared in The Simpsons to recruit marks onto the Kimya botnet. Back in 2003, an episode of animated comedy show The Simpsons revealed that Homer Simpson’s e-mail address was chunkylover53@aol.com – an address that was actually registered by one of the show’s writers. Plenty of [...]

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Computer security researchers from ETH Zurich, Google, and IBM believe computer software would be more secure if, like a perishable food product, it were labeled with an expiration date. Only 59.1 percent of people use up-to-date, fully patched Web browsers, putting the remainder at risk from growing threats from diligent hackers, according to a new [...]

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