Browsing all posts tagged with virus.
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010, in
Nerdy Things Random ThoughtsBeing in IT, you would see a lot of stupid things throughout your career… or even every day. Today is no exception. There seems to be a new trojan-laced spam email circulating lately (just starting to see it here today). Here is what it says (obvious items removed for obvious reasons): Dear Customer, This e-mail was send by [company name removed] to notify you that we have temporanly prevented access to your account. We have [...]
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010, in
Nerdy Things Random ThoughtsJust admit it people… If you were trying to find some good free porn on the internet, “accidentally” downloaded some special “viewer” from a random website and now are infested with all sorts of spyware… DO NOT tell the computer people fixing your system that you were just trying to watch the news on CNN or something. We know you’re lying. CNN does not infect you with spyware. Random, unsafe porn sites and their ‘free [...]
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009, in
Nerdy ThingsThat is my question. I’ve never run any a/v software on my XP system. No need. I don’t use any Microsoft email software. I don’t open shady attachments. I exclusively use Firefox or Safari (that is to say, not Internet Explorer). Even with FF I always use Adblock to protect myself from even more things. I don’t run a software firewall but I am behind a router – so that will block most rogue/random crap [...]
Saturday, December 20th, 2008, in
Nerdy ThingsThere are many players in the game of spyware removal. Most of them actually are just spyware themselves (don’t click the popup saying you have spyware and someone can remove it for you). There are many reputable and dependable programs out there that work very well to remove a lot of spyware. But part of the trouble is that one application typically doesn’t do too well by itself. So Spybot works well. Ad-aware helps to [...]
