Humpty
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Thanks for pointing that out Dennis.
Seems Prevx Edge runs realtime and seems to scan more locations?
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Gave this app a whirl and it seems quite darn good.
Only gave it a brief testing and it picked nearly all of my malware samples.
Still in beta with a couple of minor probs which have probably been fixed.
* Realtime protection against zero-day and even zero-hour threats* Ultra-Strong rootkit prevention
* Advanced behavior monitoring to detect complex and suspicious infections
* Blocks known and unknown infections with advanced heuristics
* Identifies and prevents targeted attacks and mutating infections
* Almost-silent operation with the absolute minimal user interaction required
* Light footprint and compatible with all other security products
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You could try increasing the size of your pagefile or set it for windows to auto control paging file size.
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Still getting a few spam here.
Several major news outlets are reporting that the shutdown of a rogue ISP in the Bay Area has lead to a massive drop in the global amount of spam. While this is ?good thing?, this event is not an end of spam, nor is it even the beginning of the end of spam; it is merely a temporary lull.Thanks in no small part to evidence gathered by Brian Krebs, The San Jose based McColo was dropped from the Internet yesterday resulting in a massive decline in spam rates around the globe. The common consensus right now is that the takedown resulted in a 35% to 50% drop in inbound spam sending attempts.
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Who's coming with me to help catch these criminals?
Think of all the beer that million bucks could buy.
A pharmacy benefits management firm announced Tuesday that it is offering a $1 million reward for information leading to the conviction of whomever is threatening to divulge the personal information of millions of its members.St. Louis-based Express Scripts disclosed last week it received an anonymous letter that included the names, Social Security numbers, birth dates and, in some cases, prescription information of 75 members. The writer or writers threatened to release millions more of similar records if the business failed to pay an unspecified sum of money.
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Think I may have posted this online browser security test a fair while ago where some some may not have seen it and may want to try.
Careful! The test will try to crash your browser! Close all other browser windows before starting and bookmark this page. If your browser crashes during the test, restart it and return to this page. It will show which vulnerability crashed your browser and offer you to continue the test or view the results. -
While researching an antivirus article here at Maximum PC, we noticed something very curious: a Google AdWords link called ?Antivirus xp 2008,? which led to the url ?antivirus-world-2009.com.? (Don't go there)
Anyone who?s been paying attention during the last year or so know that "Antivirus xp 2008" is the name of one of the most widespread and obnoxious bits of malware floating around the internet. It hides itself in your system and launches a bogus antivirus program at intervals to warn you that you?ve got spyware and trojans and the sky is falling. Then, it recommends that you buy the pro version of the program, which presumably also does nothing except rip you off. The virus is frequently updated to evade malware removal tools, and is just generally a pain.
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Even one of the UK's most popular websites can't escape Denial of Service attacks, which are reaching ever higher levels of traffic.
The BBC website has been hit by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, according to reports.
According to a statement sent to the Inquirer with confirmation from server uptime monitoring company Pingdom, the attack crippled the performance of the website last Thursday (6 November).
The attack lasted from 6pm to 11pm. Downtime was spread over multiple short intervals, each lasting a few minutes. This led to a total period of more than an hour where the website was not responding at all.
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A U.S. based Web hosting firm that security experts say was responsible for facilitating more than 75 percent of the junk e-mail blasted out each day globally has been knocked offline following reports from Security Fix on evidence gathered about suspicious activity emanating from the network.
For the past four months, Security Fix has been gathering data from the security industry about McColo Corp., a San Jose, Calif., based Web hosting service whose client list experts say includes some of the most disreputable cyber-criminal gangs in business today.
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Coming up with all sorts of names for these rogues.
Virus Trigger ( also known as VirusTrigger ) is new rogue antispyware application and near clone of VirusResponse Lab 2009. Once installed, the program will be configured to start automatically when your computer loads. Once installed this program will scan your computer a list a variety of infections that cannot be removed unless you first purchase the software.
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LOL, what a laugh.
Still remember my primary school days when Star Trek was televised on a Wednesday night and was my favourite show.
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Can't remember where I found this one?
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Today, November 10th, is the start of the exalted Leonids Meteor Shower that in the past has provided Earthlings with dramatic swarms of meteors in our skies.
The Leonids Meteor Shower will be active until November 23rd and will climax on November 17th.
Computers off and look up people.
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Four years ago today, Mozilla announced the release of Firefox 1.0. and delivered a better Web experience to millions of users. Top features included pop-up blocking, fraud protection, integrated search and tabbed browsing. What made you decide to give Firefox a try? And what were your favorite features in Firefox 1.0? 2.0? 3.0?
Happy birthday Firefox! Here?s to many more years of a healthy, open, participatory Web!
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I wish it was web-based because I've never had any joy in using any of Comodo's software.
And I'm sure, seeing as Comodo is the author of these tests, that they've made damn sure that their very own firewall passes all of em, eh.
Nevertheless nice set of tests, not that I understand most of em and I have read mostly good things about Comodo's Firewall.
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What's the security rating of your PC?
Comodo Firewall Test Suite is an all-in-one application that sequentially launches 34 of the most effective leak tests against your computer's security. When the full cycle of tests has been completed you will be provided with detailed results that will inform you which individual tests your system is vulnerable to.
Your system will also be awarded an overall security score based upon its overall performance against the suite of tests. (Highest and most secure score = 340)
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You should really be employing some decent tools for backup and containment when testing malwares.
Here I run malware in a sandbox and or virtual machine with the real system in virtual mode through Returnil as well.
I've ran/tested heaps of malware in the above setups without a breach as yet but I still have ghost images and clones on spare hard drives as backups, just in case.
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Hackers have launched a massive Web hacking campaign, putting malicious links on as many as 10,000 servers, security vendor Kaspersky Lab warned Friday.
"We?re estimating that in the last two days alone, between 2,000 and 10,000 servers, mainly Western European and American ones, have been hacked," Kaspersky wrote on its Web site Friday, "It?s not yet clear who?s doing this."
The attackers are most likely using compromised accounts on the Web sites or launching what's known as a SQL injection attack, where hackers trick the Web site's software into inadvertently running malicious commands.
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Malware Database is a site run by Lithium, a fella I contact every now and then.
Has great reports and screenies of the newest threats and I sorta have a competition in trying to find a new one before he/she does.
If in doubt on any supposed security apps you could also check Malwarebyte's Database which may surprise some in how many rogue apps are out there with new variants being created so as to avoid detection on a daily basis.
I despise the authors
of these rip off rogue apps and if I can save just one or two people some heartache through exposing these scam artists then I'll be happy. -
Came across this new rogue site, Spyware Protector, that's just being setup with no downloads available as yet.
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This is kinda fun... talking about world politics from someone outside the US.
Well US politics do influence world politics quite a lot.
Have a look at our own Aussie PM of around 12 months.
Been over to the US getting his marching orders on several occasions already.
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Do you mean McKinney? If so, she is a nut.
(shes one of those folks who believes 9/11 was an inside job.)
Yep, I meant McKinney.
Watched a couple of Youtubes with her questioning Rummy.
Man this lady has some balls and she would be my second or third choice after Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich.
Definately ain't no corporate owned and controlled puppet like most of em.
Anyone take that poll yet and willing to post their results as to who suited their selection?
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Cyber criminals are blasting out massive amounts of spam touting a video of President-elect Barack Obama's victory speech. Recipients who click the included link are taken to a site that prompts visitors to install an Adobe Flash Player update. The bogus update, however, is actually a data-stealing Trojan horse.
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Another new rogue has hit town which seems to be a clone of Antivirus 2008?
File Release_UNREG_1_.exe received on 10.31.2008 16:23:05 (CET)Current status: finished
Result: 14/36 (38.89%)
New Prevx Edge
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Seems you can only have one or the other installed at the one time.
If I install CSI first then install Edge only CSI comes up.
So it does seem they are exactly the same with more features turned on in Edge.
Prevx Edge