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From color pink to infectious binary

13

Jan

2012

My daughter should be credited (or blamed) with the Cute, Pink, and Infected release.She was playing games on my computer and suddenly screamed: “The internet has stopped!”Yes indeed, the browser had shut down on her. All I knew at the time was that this involved some online games and a google search using the word […]

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Fake Facebook alert for Change the password

22

Dec

2011

Facebook users are being targeted with fake emails pertaining to come from the social network, alerting them to change the Password. The emails is send from the spoofed email address Facebook (update+{Random Characters}@facebookmail.com) with subjects like for example, -Security alert. -You account information. -New notifications. The email comes with an attachment, -alert1523230352.zip -alertN75139832.zip -instructions2374870680.zip Upon […]

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FTC to refund rogue security software victims

15

Dec

2011

The United States Federal Trade Commission announced that it will begin issuing refunds to 300,000 consumers that were victims of several rogue security software scams such as “Winfixer“, “Drive Cleaner” and “XP Antivirus“. The following is a list of Microsoft antimalware product detection names that are linked to the Winfixer family: Program:Win32/AdvancedCleaner Program:Win32/Antivirus2008 Program:Win32/Antivirus2009 Program:Win32/SpywareIsolatorProgram:Win32/WinFixer […]

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