Bought a Samsung computer recently? Might want to run a malware check on it as it appears they may be intentionally installing a keylogger on it without telling you. Security consultant Mohamed Hassan has written an article for Network World that explains how he discovered the software . . . → Read More: [UPDATED] Samsung appears to be installing keyloggers on new computers they sell.
Meanwhile back in the Windows ‘verse all the anti-virus and system patches in the world won’t make a bit of difference if no one bothers to actually apply them to their systems. A new malware package known as Conficker has been making sudden gains on systems across the net taking advantage of a vulnerability in . . . → Read More: ArsTechnica ponders if it’s time for Microsoft to force critical updates.
Just got off the phone with my Dad after trying to diagnose a possible virus on his computer. Every time he starts up Firefox it goes nuts saying there’s a virus incoming and to abort the connection. We set up a Remote Assistance so I could see what was going on and indeed every time . . . → Read More: Has Yahoo! been hacked?
If you’ve never gotten around to changing the default password on your home Internet router, and there’s a lot of you who haven’t, then you should go change it right now. There’s a new trojan making the rounds that’s really bad news:
Once it became clear that there was big money to be made in malware it was only a matter of time before it started getting really sophisticated and some of the worst of the worst are being developed in China:
Virus from China the gift that keeps on giving – sfgate.com
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