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Malicious Websites and RDN/YahLover.worm Scam
Recently one of my clients was surfing the web and was suddenly presented with the window shown below in their browser. When you see something like this on your computer, NEVER, NEVER click anywhere on that webpage OR call the phone number shown. Just don’t do it! YIKES! My client could not close the browser window or navigate away from this notice. He did exactly the right thing. He called me and asked me to solve this one. No problem. I’m in BC and he is in Nova Scotia. I used my remote access software to ‘zoom’ into his computer and had a look around. The first thing I did was take a screenshot for future...
Read More2013 11 22 Another Great Antivirus Tool: virustotal.com
We need all the help we can get in our efforts to keep viruses and malware away from our computers. One great and free tool is an online scanning service named VirusTotal. Upload a suspect file to VirusTotal and it will scan it as you wait using a large number of different scanners. It produces a report at the end of the scan detailing the results for each virus scanner it used. It can also scan websites. Click on the scan a URL hotspot on the VirusTotal webpage, then type in the URL to the questionable website. It will do a live scan and show you the results. It would be interesting to scan known good and known infected websites. I recommend you take care what...
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