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 | from Tony Bradley, CISSP, your Editor and Guide Hello again. The Free Spyware Removal and Blocking Software page is one of the most consistently high traffic pages on the site. To help users out I created a short list of 5 easy things you can do to prevent, detect and remove spyware from your system. I also posted information about the Sasser worm spreading around the Internet currently. Since I posted that there are at least two new versions out as well so read up and make sure you are protected. | ||||
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| 5 Steps To Protect Yourself From Spyware Spyware and adware is becoming increasingly pervasive and increasingly malicious. While primarily benign- simply tracking your web surfing habits to provide companies with data for their marketing efforts- spyware can perform any number of potentially malicious functions. There are some relatively simple things...read more |
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| Sasser Worm A new worm is spreading rapidly and has been bumped up to a Medium criticality ranking by most antivirus vendors. Dubbed "Sasser" because it exploits a buffer overflow in LSASS (Local Security Authority Server Service), the worm can spread from vulnerable machine...read more |
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| New Look and Updated Glossary Unless this last week was the first time you ever visited About.com you most likely noticed a significant overhaul in the look and feel of the site. About.com felt it was time for a change and devoted extensive time and effort into researching how to make the information on the various About.com sites more accessible and functional for the readers. The articles and information have been regrouped...read more |
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