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Microsoft’s MSN Messenger, or Windows Live Messenger as it’s now known, will be fully retired on October 31st. The software maker originally announced its plans to shift users over to Skype last year, but Microsoft kept the service running in China. MSN Messenger started off life in 1999 as a rival to AOL’s AIM service. Both companies […]

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It’s easy to think that in the year 2013, computers have come far enough that slow booting, unresponsive machines are a thing of the past. Sadly, this just isn’t the case. Although Windows 8 and the advent of SSD drives has made our PCs, ultrabooks and tablets boot-up extremely quickly, there are still forces at […]

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DORKBOT, also known as NgrBot, is not a new threat. In fact, it was seen in the wild as early as 2011. Yet last week, DORKBOT made the news for spreading via Skype spammed messages, and has now reached than 17,500 reported infections globally. So what is DORKBOT, really?A worm with multiple propagation routinesDORKBOT typically […]

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