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Recent reports of “imported hardware entering the US with hidden malware” are grossly exaggerated. Occasionally, a virus creeps into some piece of hardware or software, but that’s because of shoddy manufacturing or just honest mistakes (it’s for this reason that every piece of software that Microsoft releases goes through a multi-engine virus check).  Sometimes, there’s […]

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British comic actor Simon Pegg, star of movies such as “Shaun of the Dead”, “Hot Fuzz”, and most recently the alien comedy “Paul”, has claimed that his Twitter account has been hacked in order to spread malware to his 1.2 million followers. Simon Pegg normally tweets to his fans with TweetDeck or Twitterific, but the […]

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Have you seen a post on your wall that asks “I am cleaning up my Facebook friends… let me know if you would like to stay…?” A lot of Facebook users are placing a disclaimer on their walls stating they didn’t make the posting and that it must be a virus. This is a false alarm. This is […]

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