Microsoft this week announced the release of a free antimalware tool called the Microsoft Safety Scanner. The tool – available here is designed to be downloaded and run on a potentially infected computer and it will run a scan for all known malware, virus, or trojan programs. It will remove anything it finds. It’s a 70MB download and runs on Windows XP SP3 and … [Read more...]
Virus sets Proxy Settings
One of my friends reported that they had a virus on their computer. Not to worry – their antivirus software detected it and quarantined it. The problem was that after detecting it and quarantining the virus, they had problems surfing the Internet to a number of sites. Not all sites mind you, but things like their bank, www.nba.com, and even this site were all … [Read more...]
Tweetmeme.com Infected with Malware again
Today I clicked on an tweet I was following with the URL below. It immediately took me to this site Obviously (to me anyway) a Fake AV site. It was supposed to take me to this location http://wordpress.tweetmeme.com/story/1465642530/woopra-wordpress-plugin-145-updated When I attempted to close the dialog box, it then tried to download this to … [Read more...]