Archive for the ‘Security’ Category
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Most recently on the PM Computers show, we have spending our time doing routine computer cleanings
clients in Massachusetts. The most recent of which involved cleaning starware toolbar. The kicker was I had to go back a few days later because she couldn't print out her coupons. I had disabled the ...
Posted in Hardware, Misc, Security, Software | 1 Comment »
Monday, May 19th, 2008
Something that has been in the tech news recently is a rise in SSH attacks:
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11518
One reason for the increase in these attacks could be related to the recent Debian security issues:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/13/1533212
I remember several years ago I had a similar problem - I was seeing a lot of connections to port 22 ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
If you plan to leave the country and need to take a computer with you, buy a brand new one, and keep the files you need to work with, on a jump drive/key drive/thumb drive. Thumb Drives can be kept away from the computer and may not be searched if they are ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
I always use more than one virus scanner. I know it takes more time, but if you look at the results below it will be come clear. Originally I tried just to clean the laptop with spybot to get an idea of just how infected it was. When I came ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
This week on The PM Computers show, we cleaned out a laptop for a local business woman. it was filled with all sorts of malware like funwebproducts, mywaysearch, and minibug. i was lucky it didn't have anything serious like smitfraud or vundo. After I got all of this cleaned using ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
I spent my whole day doing an emergency repair of a Windows XP system. This system had been corrupted by worms and trojans. The system had already been farked over by some other tech. It's billable hours, so when they asked me where my green was, I said "my wallet". ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Todays tip for fighting spam is spelling and language.
If there are a lot of mis-spellings in the email or instant message, it has a good chance of being spam.
If the message is in a language you don't normally speak, it might also be spam.
These are just two of the many ...
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
Last week The smart folks at PM Computers was able to rid someone of the Zlob.DNSChanger trojan.
The solution was found here:
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=15015
Normally with spyware infections our philosophy is as follows:
"I say we back up and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
In the real world ...
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