Saturday, June 14th, 2008
What are the latest viruses to cause people problems on the web? What were the biggest virus problems last month? Which are the most popular hoaxes currently confusing people about what are and are not viruses? This web page that I added to the site back in 2002 las live feeds from one of the major antivirus software producers to answer those questions for you.
Virus Information
Tags: antivirus, antivirus software, antivirus software producers, hoax
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
Yesterday my ISP blocked my internet access for a couple of hours when their automated spam blocker somehow misidentified my connection as having been sending spam. The ISP did not of course accuse me of sending spam, their block page suggested that it would have actually been caused by a virus or spyware having got installed on my system and that this was the most likely source of the spam. Their block page also offered free antivirus and antispyware software for download so that you could use the time you were blocked in scanning your system to find and remove the problem.
I didn’t need their download links because I already have a full range of security software installed on all my computers and the antivirus software had already brought itself completely up to date before the block started.
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Tags: antispyware, antispyware software, antivirus, antivirus software, AOL, firewall, internet access, isp, ISP System, security, security software, spam, USD, yhis software
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