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How you can get porno'd without meaning to
Instead of simply pretending to scan your computer, and then pretending to find spyware, they display porno images that they say they are finding on your computer. In reality, they are downloading them themselves, and then pretending to find them. All the victim had to do was simply go to a hacked website, and it started. In other words, the hacked website need have nothing to do with adult content, and could be completely innocent, except that they are hacked. In this case, it was even a children's website!

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Twitter is trying to screw us all
Question: What do AVGFree, Natalie Portman and John Cenas have in common? The answer is that Twitter is trying to screw us all.

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What everybody ought to know about botnets
On your pc, they will probably install a keylogger to steal all your user ids and passwords, and all of your contacts email addresses, so that they can be attacked from your machine. They usually also install a rootkit that will burrow into the operating system to resist detection and removal. Rootkits typically modify the operating system so that if anything like an antivirus program tries to find the malcode the rootkit is protecting, the rootkit removes those entries from the list of programs on the machine. Once they have hold of your machine, they don’t want to let it go.

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Free Halloween? Some people are paying the price.
This Halloween, the scariest things might not be the ghosts. Somewhat predictably, the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Bad Boys are at it again, this time taking advantage of Halloween. For several days now, our LinkScanner users have been detecting large numbers of attempts to trick folks, based on Halloween search phrases, such as “free” and “printable”.

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Recent scams evolution
A lot of scams were spammed last days, more than usuall, and due to this fact we can easily monitor and show you the evolution of such threat. The scams we're receiving everyday looks like this one: But a week...

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