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Google: ‘Your computer appears to be infected’

21

Jul

2011

It’s only been a few weeks since the world’s web users woke up to discover a big black bar at the top of their Google search results (introduced when Google+ was launched). Now, some users of Google search might start seeing something else close to the top of the world’s most famous home page. The […]

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Twitter phishing attack spreads via Direct Messages

10

Jul

2011

Twitter users are reporting receiving direct messages (DMs) from other members of the network, cheekily asking if it is them who is pictured in a photo, video or mentioned in a blog post. Various versions of the dangerous messages include: is this you in the video? is this you in this picture? check this out… […]

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MBR Confusion

29

Jun

2011

Our friends at Microsoft recently blogged about a new variant of a bootkit Trojan from the family they call Popureb. The variant, Win32/Popureb.E, introduced a driver component to prevent a malicious master boot record (MBR) and other malicious components from being cleaned. At least one tech writer was quick to pick up on the implications […]

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