There are several ways to propagate a virus. One of them being social engineering. This is what the Zbot variants are trying to do. They are sending emails that seem to come from your service provider, Microsoft themselves, and or your system administrator.
Yes it is that time of year, love is in the air. Well so is social engineering. So what exactly is social engineering? It is the act of manipulating someone into performing an action or giving out confidential information. For example, calling up someone claiming to be tech support and asking for their password.
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The virus known as Conflicker, Downup, Downadup, and Kido is on the rise. This is a nasty virus that not only will infect your PC but your USB devices.
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With the inauguration kicking in full swing, a botnet is sending out emails pointing users to a fake Barack Obama website. These website’s contain viruses in the links. The sites also include obfuscated java script using the name google-analysis.js.
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My wife’s boss tells her they think the computer has gone out. It won’t boot up. So I’m asked to look at it, see if I can figure out what is wrong or if they just need to buy a new machine. At first glance I can tell there is nothing wrong with the hardware, [...]
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