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How To: Remove Vista AntiVirus 2012

How To: Remove Vista AntiVirus 2012 Vista AntiVirus 2012, also known as Windows XP Home Security 2012 is one of the viruses/malware programs running around that masquerades as an anti-virus program. Unfortunately it’s not. It uses various browser holes to install itself and then pretty much disables the computer until the user puts their credit [...]

Digital Protection Malware virus

There is a new major malware virus going around right now. This one is “Digital Protection” and infects computers after the user gets one of those pop-ups that says “You have a virus!” The odd thing about this one is that it’s also taking over the Windows Updater program, so it can’t be used to [...]

How to report Internet Fraud

Internet Fraud is on a rise. As more and more people get online, more viruses are created to steal information, and more people see the anonymity of the Internet as a good way to steal, fraud rates will continue to rise. Common fraudulent acts range from using stolen Paypal accounts to pay for eBay or [...]

Mac Trojan Horse Virus Found in illegal copies of iWork 09

Intego released a security alert Friday warning of the OSX.Trojan.iServices.A Trojan Horse. Contrary to Apple’s previous press releases, OS X is not totally invulnerable to hacking, virus, or Trojan Horses although it is harder to infect without an admin user. Either way the Trojan is not much to worry about as it’s so far only [...]

Troubleshooting: Facebook constantly logs out in Safari

A recent problem has cropped up with the latest version of Safari, 3.2.1 and Leopard 10.5.6. When using Facebook (and possibly other websites such as Last.fm, Gmail, and Twitter, that require authentication to login,) users are finding that they constantly have to re-login again. Of course this gets annoying, and makes accessing those sites nearly [...]