Tagged Email Scam: Another Email Spam or A New Virus?
What do we know about the Tagged Email Scam? Are the Tagged.com messages you receive from friends an email scam or virus? If you have received an email with a subject line “you’ve been tagged!” from tagged.com, don’t give open it. This is the Tagged Email Scam. It has a virus-like behavior which asks for your email address and then will tell you to send the same tag you received to all your contacts. It’s viral or virus-like in behavior. If we may add, it’s terribly annoying. Unsolicited messages from websites like tagged.com are by nature suspicious because they are possibly phishing information via your email accounts.
Beware of Limewire Viruses and Trojans: Sample Limewire Virus Video
Viruses in Limewire, a free P2P file sharing software like Frostwire, has been reported many times in the past as a file sharing software vulnerable to virus and trojan attacks. Limewire users are now a bit apprehensive to use it again after experiencing virus infection via Limewire (latest version is 5).
Worldpay Card Transaction Confirmation: Scam or Virus?
The Worldpay Card Transaction Confirmation is considered by some as a virus and for some, a scam. Whatever it is, Worldpay Card Transaction Confirmation is a security threat to those affected. In my view, it could be both an email scam and virus rolled into one malicious electronic letter. Here is the email received by “infected” users for your information: Read more
McAfee Antivirus Free Download For April 1 Virus / Conficker Worm / April 1st Virus
The April 1 Virus is starting to take its toll on computers connected to the internet worldwide. April 1st virus is originally scheduled to be triggered on April 1, 2009 but recent reports indicate that the infection has started as early as March 31. If you are worried about the Conficker Worm, the McAfee Antivirus Free Download is a feasible solution. You can download McAfee Antivirus Free (trial version) and get immediate protection for you personal computers. Read more
How to Update Windows Defender in Windows Vista
This is a simple tutorial on how to update Windows Defender along with the malicious software removal tool from Microsoft Corporation (see previous article about the tool). If you’re running Windows Vista and have turned the automatic security update function, your PC should be downloading the Windows security updates (eg, Windows Defender) from Microsoft’s server without a hitch. But just in case you have forgotten to turn it on and decided to update the Windows Defender manually, here are the simple steps: Read more
Download Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool Free
The Microsoft malicious software removal tool can be downloaded for free from Microsoft. This is in view of the Conficker C worm/virus threat aka April 1st virus, April virus and W32.Downadup. It is advisable to download the free malicious software removal tool by Microsoft to protect your PC from unwanted or malicious software or program. In fact, as computer programmers, we would also advise you to turn on Windows Defender under Windows Vista (Go to your Control Panel -> Security and there you’ll see the needed security updates).
Conficker C Worm aka April 1st Virus and April 1 Virus: Info and Removal Tool
The April 1st virus (aka Conficker C Worm and April 1 Virus) has been a threat since 2008, according to reliable sources. I have not actually experienced any Conficker C attack or threat firsthand. Maybe that’s because I always update my antivirus databases everyday. Yeah, that’s one way to prevent the Conficker C virus or April 1st Virus. Update your antivirus software virus databases daily and turn on the Windows Update ALWAYS. The Conficker C worm will exploit a Windows vulnerability called MS08-067. So far, no report has been made on its impact on computers running Linux especially Ubuntu 8.10 (this author’s personal favorite).
April 1st or April 1 Virus: Is It Real?
Online news has it that there is going to be a virus that will spread on April Fool’s Day (April 1, 2009). The April 1st virus attack news is in no way intended to scare anyone. We are posting this internet info for the sake of everyone especially our readers. Time will tell if the April 1st virus is real or a hoax just like the Olympic Torch Virus aka Invitation Virus.
Beware of Email Scams on the Internet
I was really astonished to know that email scams on the internet constitute 90% of the total emails sent daily, Cisco reported. Agence France-Presse also indicated that “armies of hijacked computers are flooding the world with spam as hackers devise slicker ways to take over unwitting people’s machines”. This report was based on Cisco’s findings.
Beware of email scams, that’s the only advice I can give you. Don’t open emails coming from unknown sources especially those claiming that you’ve won a large sum of money. Read more
Facebook Virus: Facebook Users Under Attack By a Vicious Virus/Worm
Vicious Facebook Virus on the Loose! Are you a Facebook user? If yes, then beware of the vicious Facebook virus that attacks users relentlessly by disguising itself as an “invitation” to Facebook users to click on links leading to a Youtube-like website. Sounds like the “Invitation Virus“, doesn’t it?
On a personal note, this is expected because even in other social networks like Friendster and Myspace, malicious viruses and spams have been reported to attack unsuspecting users. I’m not just sure if the new social network Ziggs will encounter the same fate at the hands of spammers and malware creators. Maybe in the near future. 