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‘Windows Live Update’ Virus Warning is a Facebook Hoax

Sep

2012

Don’t be alarmed about and definitely do not share the following warning with your friends:URGENT NOTICE! PLEASE READ MY FRIENDS! ALERT POLICE AUTHORITIES: At your computer and my, circulates this notice to your friends and family contacts! In the coming days be aware: do not open any message containing an attached file called “Windows Live […]

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August 2012 virus activity review: growing botnets, a Java vulnerability, and new threats to Android

Sep

2012

The last summer month of the year saw a noticeable increase in activity on the part of virus makers and Internet fraudsters-pretty much in line with our expectations. Fraudsters crafting paid archive hoaxes came to incorporate malicious software such as Trojan.Mayachok.1 into their “products”. Compared with July, the number of new threats discovered by Doctor […]

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Phil Collins Dies in Car Crash – Facebook Hoax

Jun

2012

Phil Collins is the latest celebrity death hoax spreading rapidly on Facebook. This is the same bogus site that created the Vanilla Ice hoax earlier this month.Clicking the wall post takes you to http://phil.collins.swellserver.com/news/top_stories/auto80.php – a peculiar URL for a news site, huh? Also, none of the news category links are active either. The only working […]

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‘Windows Live Update’ Virus Warning is a Facebook Hoax

August 2012 virus activity review: growing botnets, a Java vulnerability, and new threats to Android

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