Monthly Archives: August 2009
My PC might have a virus – what do I do?
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August 21, 2009
One of the most common posts that you see in various forums is from people who suspect that their computer might be virus infected. Posts such as, “My computer is crashing, do I have a virus?” or “I just got …
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VIPRE “runs just fine in Win7 XP mode”
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August 20, 2009
XP mode in Windows 7 is a little bit different. It runs in a virtual environment. The implications in that are pretty big for anti-virus companies since the anti-virus application you are running in Win7 mode doesn’t protect the XP …
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Sunbelt named One of America’s Fastest-Growing Companies
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August 17, 2009
Sunbelt Software has been included in Inc. Magazine’s third annual ranking of the 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. This is the third time that Sunbelt has been on an Inc. 500 or 5000 ranking. “The Inc. 5000 gives …
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Surviving a third party onsite audit
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The staff at the SANS Internet Storm Center has put together a good brief piece on how to prepare for and go through an outside IT audit. The philosophy is basically: work with the auditors rather than against them in …
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When Zombies attack
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August 15, 2009
“Zombies are a popular figure in pop culture/entertainment and they are usually portrayed as being brought about through an outbreak or epidemic. Consequently, we model a zombie attack, using biological assumptions based on popular zombie movies. We introduce a basic …
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Browsers tested for phishing and social engineering malware
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August 14, 2009
NSS Labs has posted the results of its testing of the big six browsers for their ability to repel social engineering malware and phishing attacks. “The results are based upon empirically validated evidence gathered by NSS Labs during continuous 24×7 …
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Controlling a botnet with 140 characters or fewer
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Jose Nazario, writing on the Arbor Network Security blog “Security to the Core,” has described a botnet that uses Twitter as a command-and-control channel. The bot owner sends update information in a tweet and RSS feeds send it to the …
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China bans use of electroshock therapy for Internet addiction
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No, that headline isn’t from the Onion. Entire blog post here. Xinhua story from July 16 here. Sometimes a big story is eclipsed by a larger one. This is one of them. The fact that China banned electroshock therapy for …
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FREEWARE version of GFI WebMonitor available for download
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We are proud to offer a FREEWARE version of our successful web monitoring software, GFI WebMonitor for ISA Server. Web Security in Organizations Unmonitored internet access can present some serious security risks if files are downloaded by users without scanning of any …
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The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft agley (In China too)
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August 13, 2009
The Chinese Minister of Industry and Information Technology, Li Yizhong, has said that the fiat that all computers sold in his country after July 1 were required to have Green Dam Internet censoring software was just a great big misunderstanding. …
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