Computer Protection at its Finest!
I hope everybody reading this article now knows the basics to common sense when it comes to computers and the Internet! Just in-case you’ve forgot some of the key pointers we’ve talked about in multiple articles, we’re going to talk about some anti-virus facts. Anti-virus does not make your computer invincible, and in-fact 28% of machines with anti-virus are unknowingly infected with a virus of some sort!
Hackers located in Russia have been using a gas company named “GazTranzitStroyInfo LLC” have been using this as a front. They’ve been exploiting web-browsers with the famous exploit known as “Zeus”. Zeus can exploit browsers on a large scale, so stay updated! Due to the fact their hosting is offshore, security professionals are unable to shut down most of their websites, as the hosting company may not comply in the same language, or even at all.
We’ve received many e-Mails and requests for a list of virus extensions. In case you do not know what an extension is, it is the period + last 3 numbers of a file. Here are some extensions you should be cautious opening:
This article describes the top 10 things that YOU can do to prevent new viruses from damaging computers running a Microsoft Windows product. In this article, the term “virus” also includes trojans, worms, searchbars, spyware and other malware. For those using Mac or Linux, similar principles apply.
Do you use Torrents, warez, LimeWire, or other Peer-to-Peer (p2p) applications?
Well, these seem to be the latest and greatest ways for bot masters to spread their malware! We all know that Peer-to-Peer is all about sharing files in which you do not want to pay for. This, of course, is illegal. So now not only can you get fined or go to jail for using some of these applications, but you have a very high risk of getting your computer infected!
OK, well here is an informative update to the so called “Conficker” virus. My last article about this virus, was explaining how it is probably a hoax. Well, I was a little off. I was wrong about it being a hoax, but I was right about it not being much different than any other bot (Trojan). It spreads via private exploits (public now). Once a computer is infected, Conficker will scan a random IP range and try to run the exploits against other computers, thus infecting more systems.
Many of you might have heard of the “Conficker” in which supposedly has many exploits in which can breach most Windows Operating Systems quite easily. However, we believe this virus is a complete hoax. The virus supposedly has many machines infected, but if this was true, a security analysis would have found, and traced it’s connection. The original Conficker virus is most probably a hoax, but there have been many replica’s of the virus. Some people have been throwing together a bunch of public exploits in which are meant to cause malicious harm to your computer, but if you have a basic updated anti-virus or firewall application, you’re secure!
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