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Pop Up MALWA trojan.vundo, winfixer2005, winantivirus etc.

The constant vundo alert and all the pop up windows and alert boxesstopped appearing on my PC on 12/15/2005. They have not come back inthe the 25 days which have passed since.I do not know who fixed me, but I appreciate it. My XP and all myapplications are running MUCH better now.Newsgroups: , a...

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firewall and nav vs. avg vs. antivir, etc.

hello,happy new yearwindows xp (home) came with nav which has expired i don't likenorton at all.it had a firewall also.1. is norton difficult to uninstall?2. is avg 7.x (the free version) ok?3. i use antivir on 2 other systems (a win95b and a win98se) i like itbut wonder whether it is adequ...

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Humor Control 20060109

THE PENTAGN, WASHINGTN, D.C. -- The U.S. Air Force, which now officiallydefends America's cyberspace from the threat of war and terrorism, haspresented to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld a "military option" to"neutralize" a teenager who wrote a "zero-day WMF exploit" that crippledAmerica...

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Re Limewire VIRUS!

<db48060@earthlink.netwrote in messagenews:1136832387.817211.76920@Many files are 851.7KB and remember being told there could be problemswhen downloading these files. Can anyone comfirm this. Many thanksDN'T TUCH THEM!! The database was infiltrated and all of these 851.7kbfiles are virus...

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Limewire file question

Many files are 851.7KB and remember being told there could be problemswhen downloading these files. Can anyone comfirm this. Many thanks...

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Anybody seen this or knows what it is?

Hi,I noticed that my system (WinXP/SP2) sometimes producesinternet traffic although there should be no reason for this.It's not doing it all the time and constantly but onlysometimes and in a way that one could not tell from justlooking at the system load.TCPView.exe shows that winlogon.exe...

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OT: Karma is a Bitch

For your reading enjoyment, I submit this jewel.http://tinyurl.com/8wra6 Salt...

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Call for articles

Hi all,There is a new e-zine coming out that will be called InfoHack.InfoHack will contain various technology related topics including, butnot limited to, hacking, phreaking, programming, security, hardwarehacking, modding, and more. It is being started my friend Exvitel andI. So far we have not...

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smsogx32.exe - what is this?

I have a Dell Dimension 8400 using WinXP Pro.Yesterday when I shut down my computer, it said that an update neededto be installed that could not be installed with just a re-start, andthat my computer needed to be completely shut down. Upon powering upagain afterwards, McAfee Personal Firewall (B...

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Reading the Symantec exploit numbers

I'll start by example: Please take a look atand click any of the threats in the left column.All the exploits I clicked have the same numbers, 0-49 infections and 0-2sites.Clicking the 'infections' brings up a glossary that says,Number of infections: Measures the number of computer...

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Anyone seen a virus do this?

My daughter has a 18 month-old laptop running XP. A month or so agoshe got a computer virus that she couldn't rid of. A computer sciencemajor at her school restored the machine to an early point andeverything was fine, though of course she lost all her documents.She brought the machine home...

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How do viruses attack?

Basic Question: How can viruses(including horsies, worms etc.)attackmy computer? The reason I'm asking this basic question is because I'mwondering if I can safeguard my computer by doing the following:Let's say that I do not open any unrecognizable e-mail at all. Let'salso sa...

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