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Lots of Bots

Mrs. Mecomber — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 13:00:55 +0000

Lots of Bots

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Lots of BotsThis is from Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook and is copyrighted material. Yikes. According to CNet, more than 2 million computers in the the United States host botnets! Botnets are malicious programs that infect computers. They are spread through viruses and worms, and are controlled by a “master” somewhere on the Internet. Botnets spew out [...]

Disable AutoPlay to Protect Your Computer From Malware

Mrs. Mecomber — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:45:00 +0000

Disable AutoPlay to Protect Your Computer From Malware

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Disable AutoPlay to Protect Your Computer From MalwareThis is from Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook and is copyrighted material. Windows by default has AutoPlay configured. AutoPlay (once called AutoRun in older Windows operating systems) is that little program that starts up the software whenever you connect a USB flash drive, an external hard drive, or pop in [...]

Process Library and Scanner

Mrs. Mecomber — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:04:12 +0000

Process Library and Scanner

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Process Library and ScannerThis is from Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook and is copyrighted material. Lots of virus- and trojan-creators have become quite shifty and sneaky: they are naming their malware after genuine, important software already on our computers. For example, do you have lsass.exe or Isass.exe in your process files list? It’s very difficult to see [...]