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New Angry Birds Space infection

admin — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 02:31:53 +0000

Download the latest version of Angry Birds and you could find yourself as cheesed off as one of the game’s flapping heroes.

Versions of Angry Birds Space – the new version of the hit puzzle game – are infected with malicious software that allows cyber-criminals full control of infected handsets.
Hidden inside a fully working version of the game, a trojan quietly installs malicious code that can be used to steal personal information such as banking details – and even use Android phones as part of mass cyber attacks against other websites.

Mac Trojan infects 600,000 machines

admin — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 02:27:02 +0000

Patch your Mac!

Over 600,000 Apple Macs have reportedly been infected with a Trojan virus called “Flashback” worldwide.

Initial reports had claimed that some 550,000 Macs were infected with Flashback, but a Russian internet security firm, Dr Web, upgraded this number to over 600,000.

But Flashback isn’t new, and was uncovered in September 2011. Originally designed to disguise itself as an Adobe Flash Player installer, it used Adobe Flash player logos to help conceal its true identity.

The 2012 variant of Flashback takes advantage of a Java runtime flaw found in OSX.

Even though Flashback has been a known security issue for months, the vulnerability had remained unpatched by Apple, even though other players (including Oracle and Microsoft) had released a fix for the vulnerability earlier this year. Apple have since distributed a patch earlier this week – after early reports began to emerge about the latest Flashback variant.

Security Advice

admin — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:30:39 +0000

Today, spam is still a problem, viruses and other “bad” things are still circulating, and spyware is worse than ever. These are generally lumped into a category called “Malware” these days, from the French “mal” for “bad”.

To protect yourselves, I still advise the use of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, as well as Spybot for anti-spyware, and Avast and AVG for anti-virus. In addition, I use ZoneAlarm for my firewall (to keep the “baddies” from “calling home” and sending your private info to the writer of the spyware). Also, Adobe Reader is now the most secure yet. As well, Mozilla’s Firefox has many new features, and both it and Google’s Chrome browser update often.

You can get links to all of these free, legal, software packages on our website

As always, if you need help, please contact us.

Sheila Brown

Update Adobe Reader

admin — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 09:12:46 +0000

Due to a security concern, please update to Adobe Reader 10 at http://www.filehippo.com/download_adobe_reader/

NOTE: click only on Download Latest Version on the upper right and be patient while it loads (Save the file, then run it to update your computer)