According to Best Buy’s website, a computer virus was introduced to their Insignia NS-DPF10A digital photo frame during the manufacturing process. Many people received these items as gifts over the holiday season and once connected via a USB cable could have inadvertently infected their computer. The good news is that it is an [...]
MessageLabs, a computer technology company, commissioned Romanian visual artist Alex Dragulescu to come up with a artistic representation of different types of computer viruses. Dragulescu’s finished products are to be used in MessageLabs next advertising campaign… check out the ads here.
As if it were not bad enough that former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated earlier this week, leaving behind family, friends, and supporters to mourn her loss. It is now being reported that there are actual websites out there containing information about Pakistan’s “Daughter of Democracy”, but are really cloaking malware and [...]
A man is charged with installing a computer virus on Newell Rubbermaid company computers that would allow them to be controlled by him so he could then have each computer in the network sign up for an affiliate advertising plan and he would get the commissions. The offender is 21 years of age and [...]
Being on the lookout for computer viruses is a full-time job these days. Virus producers are getting more and more brazen in their attempts at infecting your computer. The holiday season is no time to let your guard down.
There has been more and more e-card companies sprouting up all over the Internet. It’s great fun [...]
Catching up on virus information, here is a pretty thorough article on the Storm Worm that was unleashed not too long ago.
When a new computer virus strikes, usually in the first article reporting it there will be someone’s assessment of a dollar figure in damages. Whether its lost sales because of down time, lost customers, replacement of hardware, cleaning up of software and databases, or just the labor of the technicians who repair the problem, [...]
Here is a story regarding David Farr, a hospital respiratory therapist who was fired from his job after pornographic sites were found to have been bookmarked on the computer he used. Farr claims that the hospital did not update or properly maintain security on their network and that the sites were automatically bookmarked by malware [...]
There have been reports of computer viruses included in emails saying that they contain photos of Osama Bin Laden. Like always, never open an attachment unless you are positive what it is and who it is from. Common sense can keep you and your computer safe from a virus.
In the constant battle to protect our computers from computer viruses and other trouble, we often find ourselves wondering: “what do the big wigs do to protect their computers and networks?”
Well, the answer for Tom Ryan, founder of ScienceForTheStars.com, was a program he obtained from CNet called LinkScanner.
LinkScanner scans a websites links to tell if [...]