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Guest writer: Lena
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Full View / NID: 21175 / Submitted by: The Spirit of Zuron
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Lavasoft Personal Firewall 3.0 - New Version Now Available
With cyber threats morphing and growing more sophisticated, it is imperative to have a solid security solution. Hackers, identity thieves, Trojans, and keyloggers are just a few of the intruders waiting to get their hands on your confidential information, through unpatched security holes.
In order to provide you [...]
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Full View / NID: 21155 / Submitted by: The Spirit of Zuron
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It is the end of March. Time to prepare for the coming of Spring and warmer weather, right? Here is the view from our window today! Welcome to Sweden in the Springtime!
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Full View / NID: 21151 / Submitted by: The Spirit of Zuron
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Here’s a news update for those that have been following the U.S. FBI’s Operation Bot Roast investigation -
A Florida-based bot herder has pleaded guilty to surreptitiously installing adware on hundreds of PCs in Europe, costing tens of thousands of dollars to detect and neutralize. Robert Bentley, 21, could face up to 10 years in prison [...]
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Full View / NID: 21132 / Submitted by: The Spirit of Zuron
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For our Ad-Aware users who have experienced the current conflict with Windows Live OneCare, asking you to uninstall Ad-Aware, we’ve received confirmation from them that they will fix the conflict on their side in two stages (unfortunately because of their size they are slow to getting patches out to market).
The false positive tagging of Ad-Aware [...]
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Full View / NID: 21078 / Submitted by: The Spirit of Zuron
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Lately, we’ve seen a trend toward major security-related websites becoming the victim of targeted attacks. Assaults on the sites of Trend Micro, CA, and the volunteer-led security community, CastleCops, are all recent examples of this malicious behavior by hackers.
Today, we learned that the well-known DSL Reports online security forum has been taken down by a [...]
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Full View / NID: 21038 / Submitted by: The Spirit of Zuron
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Let’s face it: filing taxes is not on the top of many people’s list of favorites. To make matters a bit more unfavorable, tax season comes with its own set of security issues. And for those in the U.S., tax time is here.
If you’re one of the many who turn to the Internet to e-file [...]
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Full View / NID: 21022 / Submitted by: The Spirit of Zuron
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The software updates made available today serve to fix issues with slow updates (which caused ‘SSL Download failed’ errors), program crashes at Windows startup scans and a few smaller bugs. The software update also includes a new version of the Update Manager.
The software version number remains at 7.0.2.6 as this update does not contain any [...]
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Full View / NID: 20966 / Submitted by: The Spirit of Zuron
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Full View / NID: 20965 / Submitted by: The Spirit of Zuron
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In the courts this week:
A U.S. federal judge granted a request by the Federal Trade Commission for a judgment against a software developer, an affiliate of ERG Ventures, who was accused of taking part in a scam that infected millions of victims’ computers with spyware.
The default judgment bars Timothy P. Taylor from distributing software that [...]
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Full View / NID: 20955 / Submitted by: The Spirit of Zuron
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These days, it seems there’s a social networking site for anyone and everyone - from small niche followings to the larger, ever-growing online communities.
This open environment for sharing information, the foundation of web-based networks, is the perfect backdrop for all kinds of online threats.
But it’s not just malware, adware and spam that we need to be aware [...]
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Full View / NID: 20884 / Submitted by: The Spirit of Zuron
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Here at Lavasoft, we constantly come across websites that are trying to piggy back on our name, in order to try to scam people into buying the “product” they’re selling. The following is just one example of how scammers will try to take advantage of you.
We’ve recently been alerted about a website that sells Adware [...]
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Full View / NID: 20845 / Submitted by: The Spirit of Zuron
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Full View / NID: 20844 / Submitted by: The Spirit of Zuron
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Here at Lavasoft, we constantly come across websites that are trying to piggy back on our name, in order to try to scam people into buying the “product” they’re selling. The following is just one example of how scammers will try to take advantage of you.
We’ve recently been alerted about a website that sells Adware [...]
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Full View / NID: 20838 / Submitted by: The Spirit of Zuron
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Podcasts are great for a number of reasons, one being that people in different locations in the world can co-host a show (which is a lot harder to do with video for obvious reasons).
This is the case with Billy (US) and Aaron (UK). Their joint effort, the Daily Freeware Podcast, recently reviewed Ad-Aware 2007 Free [...]
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Full View / NID: 20792 / Submitted by: The Spirit of Zuron
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We know that a major contributor to rising spam levels is botnets - networks of compromised computers. According to industry findings, however, only a handful of botnets were responsible for the majority of spam sent in February. Six botnets spewed out 85 percent of all spam last month, the first time so few botnets were found [...]
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Full View / NID: 20788 / Submitted by: The Spirit of Zuron
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Lavasoft’s newly formed Future Technologies Team, consisting of Joe Wells, Odd Stranne, and Jason Franks recently got together for a strategies session in Nevada to discuss technical initiatives that will bring us into a new era of malware detection, removal, and protection. Below are a couple of photos from their latest meeting:
Key members of the [...]
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Full View / NID: 20755 / Submitted by: The Spirit of Zuron
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Full View / NID: 20728 / Submitted by: The Spirit of Zuron
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Google may pledge to do no evil, but the same is not true of the World Wide Web. According to the search giant, web browsing and online searches are growing more risky.
In a new technical report available this month, Google outlines the frequency of drive-by downloads on the Internet. A few of the interesting points in [...]
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Full View / NID: 20720 / Submitted by: The Spirit of Zuron
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If you follow security news, you’re bound to have seen reports the past weeks on the recent sub-sea cable breakages that disrupted Internet services in South Asia and the Middle East.
Wondering exactly how the Web is connected together around the world? Take a look at how we cable the seas to stay connected in a [...]
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Full View / NID: 20660 / Submitted by: The Spirit of Zuron
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