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Trend Micro hit by massive Web hack

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Ghiath
 – March 17, 2008Posted in: Computers & Internet, Hot News, Security
Trend Micro hit by massive Web hack

Source: Robert McMillan (IDG News Service)

Security vendor Trend Micro has fallen victim to a widespread Web attack that splashed malicious software onto hundreds of legitimate Web sites in recent days.

A Trend Micro spokesman confirmed that the company’s site had been hacked Thursday, saying that the attack took place earlier in the week. “A portion of our site — some pages were attacked,” said Mike Sweeny, a Trend Micro spokesman. “We took the pages down overnight Tuesday night — and took corrective action.”

On Thursday security vendor McAfee reported that more than 20,000 Web pages have been affected by the attack. The pages are infected with malicious code that tries to install password-stealing software on the PCs of people who visit the sites.

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The perfect virus immunization for your computer – Part 3 – TrendMicro System Cleaner

By
Ghiath
 – February 11, 2008Posted in: Computers & Internet, Security, Virus & AntiVirus
The perfect virus immunization for your computer – Part 3 – TrendMicro System Cleaner

We’ve featured so far two products for securing computers, Kaspersky Internet Security and PC Tools Spyware Doctor. These two products are very helpful if your operating system is working fine. But what if your computer is damaged badly by a virus or a worm and you can’t even start your Microsoft Windows in “Normal Mode” or that virus is not letting you install applications.

In order to scan your computer with Trend Micro System Cleaner, you have to download sysclean.com and download the latest pattern file from Trend Micro’s website. Extract the Zip archive of the pattern file and put the the two files on the same directory and execute sysclean.com.

Now, Trend Micros Sytem Cleaner windows should appear on the screen. Just click on scan to scan all your files or click on advanced to choose more advanced options.

Once Sysclean finished scanning your computer an log file will be generated. You can click on “View Log” to see the scan result.

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How to enable Google Adsense with Kaspersky Internet Security

By
Ghiath
 – February 9, 2008Posted in: Computers & Internet, Security, Virus & AntiVirus
How to enable Google Adsense with Kaspersky Internet Security

There are a lot of users including me who faced trouble trying to see Google Adsense Ads while they are using Kaspersky Internet Security. The reason for this is that Kaspersky’s Anti-Banner is blocking the script for Google Adsense Syndication. However, the solution for this problem is very simple and here are the steps to enable Adsense with KIS.

Step 1:

Open Kaspersly Internet Security Firewall Settings and click on Configure as shown in the image below:

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The perfect virus immunization for your computer – Part 2 – Spyware Doctor

By
Ghiath
 – February 7, 2008Posted in: Computers & Internet, Security, Virus & AntiVirus
The perfect virus immunization for your computer – Part 2 – Spyware Doctor

Spyware Doctor

I consider Spyware Doctor the most powerful against spyware, tracking cookies and suspicious applications I’ve tried so far. Too many things make this tool a frontline for defeating threats.

Advantages:

A. Excellent Threat Detection: Spyware Doctor is very effective against spyware, malware and tracking cookies. The good thing about this tool is that it installs itself as a Windows service and checks every single file from startup to shutdown. The OnGuard feature give this tool extra power for detecting threats from Browsers, Cookies, KeyLoggers, Networks and Malicious applications.

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The perfect virus immunization for your computer – Part 1 – Kaspersky Internet Security

By
Ghiath
 – February 6, 2008Posted in: Computers & Internet, Security, Virus & AntiVirus
The perfect virus immunization for your computer – Part 1 – Kaspersky Internet Security

I will start a series of posts to review a number of products that I found very help for personal computer protection. There are thousand for security products that claims to be give your computer the best protection.

Kaspersky Internet Security:

Kaspersky is the best Internet Protection Suit I’ve tried so far. I will list the thing advantages and the disadvantages for it so it can be easy to evaluate:

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Disabling or enabling Windows System Restore

By
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 – January 23, 2008Posted in: Computers & Internet, Security
Disabling or enabling Windows System Restore

Source: PCHELL.com

One of the best features of Windows ME, XP, or Windows Vista is the System Restore option, however if a virus infects a computer with this operating system the virus may be accidentally backed up because of this feature. In order to completely remove a virus on these operating systems, you should disable System Restore before cleaning the system, then reenable it after the system is clean.

Follow the instructions below to disable System Restore

Disabling System Restore on Windows ME

1. Click Start, Settings, and then click Control Panel.
2. Double-click the System icon. The System Properties dialog box appears.

NOTE: If the System icon is not visible, click “View all Control Panel options” to display it.

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