Aaaaaahhhhhh! Ive been invaded by a virus! Getting a virus means getting sick and no one in their right mind wants to be ill. Well, now that computers have become our close friends, its a shock to learn that foreign bodies too can invade them with malicious intent. No, your computer doesnt get a runny […]
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Hall of Shame The Bad Boys of Email Spam
The majority of Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE) or spam is sent by a relatively small group of dedicated professional spammers. The Register of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO) indicates that 80% of all spam comes from just 200 known spam operations. This data is in line with research completed by CipherTrust research scientists, which indicates that […]
Hateful and annoying spywares. Have they infected my computer?
As Technology advances, spyware has become a norm in many people¡¦s life. But what is spyware? Spyware is not a virus. It is not meant to attack your system but it is used to steal information from your system. To explain this as simple as possible, spyware is computer software that is used to run […]
Hackers And Hoaxes
By Trina L.C. Schiller Everyone who has an ISP, understands, or at least knows about how hackers use viruses, Trojans and other web nasties, to infect and mess up your computer. No headline news there. (Unfortunately, we still don’t understand why they do it, or at least I don’t.) But hackers don’t have to write […]