I was working on a PC for someone that had some real issues with spyware on his system. The main symptom that he found was that his computer would hang after boot up. The mouse could move around, but you couldn’t do anything with the Start Menu, desktop icons, or the keyboard. My task was [...]
Tags: combofix, malwarebytes, spyware removal
Tonight the new look for the website went live! Major thanks to Denise Smith for her work on the graphics. Everything she’s done for the business has come out great looking. I’m really excited to have this done. I hope you all enjoy it as well. Technorati Tags: new website
Tags: new website
Last week I was migrating a client to a new computer and was preparing to configure Outlook. Their email account used POP3 and they didn’t remember their password anymore. I really didn’t want to call the email provider to reset the password, but I had to get this setup too. With a bit of hunting [...]
Tags: email password recovery, pop3 emulator, pop3 password
There is an active attack occuring on a number of popular social networking sites, such as Facebook, MySpace, Friendster and others. Victims receive an invitation to view a video with a link attached to it. When they click on the link, a message is displayed which states that they need an update for Adobe Flash [...]
Tags: computer attacks, malicous software, security warning, worm