Rating 4.40 out of 5

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Rating 4.00 out of 5

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Bill Kam of Trend Micro is coming to Cincinnati to give a FREE live in-person training on Trend’s Worry Free products – best practices for install/configure and how to protect from things like “fakeav”, and new tools for the partner/IT Pro to use as well.  He may cover some of the Worry Free 7 info [...]

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The news rags are online pointing fingers about who is to blame for the latest Windows issue nicknamed the blacK Screen Of Death (KSOD). Microsoft says it’s not a patch issue, Prevx apologized for initially blaming a patch. All I know for sure is that people want it fixed. Oddly enough, about 10 minutes after [...]

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I saw this IM virus for the first time today: WARNING – Don’t go to the URLs listed in this post, due to possible malware and NSFW content. Followed a few minutes later by: That’s from one of my sisters (so I see some phone support in my future.) She’s not signed in, so that’s a [...]

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Everybody is all excited about the return of Conficker on April 1, 2009, and the news media is whipping the general public up into a froth about it. Even my mom called me to ask about it. Here’s the low-down… PREVENTION: Apply the security update associated with MS08-067 (Windows 2000, XP, Vista & 2008). Make [...]

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Like a big catfish going after a dough ball, folks are snapping up malware like it’s a $20 bill blowing across a parking lot. Specifically, we’re talking about the old “Antivirus XP”, which is now making the rounds re-branded as “Antivirus Plus”. Behold… System Tray Desktop Icon Fake Infection Alert And I’d be willing to [...]

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Since some of my blog readers are end-users, and not IT pros, I wanted to pass along the following info. The hot malware infecting machines lately seems to be "Antivirus XP 2008". It starts simply enough: (I especially like the typo of "aviailable" – nice). The unsuspecting user clicks on the ‘e-card’ hyperlink, runs the [...]

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