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Advertisements Getting hit by ransomware is perhaps the biggest bummer ever. Everybody gets a virus now and again. Things get intense as you worry about your identity getting stolen and your bank accounts getting drained; but ransomware is a completely different deal. Despite the fact that many ransomware links look very realistic, nothing is more …
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Advertisements When you’re hit by ransomware, the first thing many folks think of is – CRAP! My pictures/videos/school work/data! What am I going to do?! To be honest, there’s not much you CAN do – IF you haven’t prepared. In order to prepare for the worst, you need to take the steps I’ve outlined in …
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Advertisements Over the weekend, a very good friend of mine told me how someone they knew fell victim to a ransomware attack. The victim was an acquaintance of his; and this acquaintance got scammed not once, but twice by the same thieves. When the initial attack hit, my friend’s friend – we’ll call him Ben …
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Advertisements In light of the latest bit of ransomware – Petya – here are tips to prevent getting hacked The latest bit of ransomware – dubbed Petya – is currently running through banks, financial institutions and healthcare facilities in both Asia and Europe. The bug, like most ransomware, encrypts corporate data by encrypting hard drives, …
Advertisements The deal, worth $2.3B, is intended to create a more powerful AV tool 2016 was a big antivirus year for me. I had two articles on how anyone could pick up malware. I followed it up here. Its true. Anyone can get a bug, so if you aren’t running a malware scanner or antivirus product, …
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Advertisements Keep your PC safe with this must have internet security suite. If there’s one thing that I know and know WELL, it’s that anyone and everyone can get a computer virus or piece of malware. It’s becoming too easy not to pick up a bug, no matter how computer savvy or experienced you are. If you use a …
Advertisements Sometimes, you can be your own worst enemy… A while back, I posted an article about how anybody could get a computer virus. It was telling, because the anybody was me. I ran afoul of a bad ad network somewhere and picked up something that caused me to, I thought, pick up a key …
Advertisements This one targets Mac systems. Heads up Apple users…! As Macs and macOS become more and more mainstream, more and more virus and malware authors are going to be writing code that targets computers coming out of Cupertino. Case in point – a new piece of malware has been encountered in the wild, allowing …
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Advertisements The past few weeks have been hellacious at Casa de la Spera… I’ve been in computing since 1984. I have written more than I can remember without actually reviewing the stuff I’ve written. This includes seven years of columns on CompuServe’s Computing Pro forum as well as approximately 10,000 tips for …
