Archive for 'Security' Category
Terms & Conditions
Why should you always read the Terms & Agreements? Here’s why:
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/15/7500-online-customers-accidentally-sold-their-souls/
Google Redirect
Had two computers in the past two days with a Google Redirect “virus” where all Google search links redirected to crazy places. Turns out that there is a file wdmuad in the windows\system32 directory (about 25k in size) and a modified atapi.sys file in windows\system32\drivers. So I deleted the wdmaud and restored the atapi.sys [...]
WordPress 2.8.6
I upgraded to WordPress 2.8.6. I do not immediately see any significant changes – it must have been mainly a security update.
Panda Security Free
Panda Security is going to be free on October 22nd – tomorrow! Download your copy tomorrow. 24hr only.
Spyware Webserver
I know it is not new but I have not seen a spyware program that installed a web server in the open in quite some time. Today I had some spyware and the web server was called “webserver” and it was located in Program Files/webserver and there was a service associated with it call – [...]
iPhone Hacked
It is not news that the iPhone is a target or that it has been hacked. All smartphones, hell all phones, can be hacked. What is very interesting and was just announced at the Black Hat security conference was that it can be hacked by sending it a txt message. How can you avoid that? [...]
Free AntiVirus
Well for personal computer I normally install the free AVG. There are a few other free AntiVirus programs available but this is the one I started with and it is difficult to break the habit. So today the AVG download is different. Instead of downloading a 60MB+ file you download a tiny program that then [...]
Firefox 3.5.1
Well the critical Firefox flaw was fixed. Release 3.5.1 came out today and you should upgrade if you are on the 3.5 version.
Crazy Spyware
I have had two computers this week. Both with INSANE spyware. It was so bad I had to reload both computers. Spyware is sometimes fun to battle and other times I do not like it.
GA Hack
Read an interesting article today about Google Analytics being hacked on people’s websites. Infected sites will redirect users and most likely infect them with a virus or spyware. So I guess that means we should stop keeping track of who visits our sites? OK so maybe we just make sure our servers are secure and [...]