by Scott | Jun 14, 2006 | Local news, Spyware, Viruses and Scams
Yesterday, it was reported that… “Oregon Department of Revenue officials thought they were tightly secured against data theft. ” Then they went on to say that “an employee from using an office computer to surf porn sites and download a Trojan...
by Scott | May 24, 2006 | Spyware, Viruses and Scams
Viruses used to be just like graffiti, designed to satisfy only an egotistical itch, but now they can make the creators money. Someone’s created a virus that takes peoples over computers, then goes out one the web, and clicks on ads that make website owners...
by Scott | Mar 28, 2006 | Spyware, Viruses and Scams
*update – as of 1/1/2007 AVG is no longer free…sorry! Antivirus companies charge a lot for their product, and with good reason. However, there’s a company that has decent software that they give away free to home users, with the hopes of earning your...
by Scott | Mar 17, 2006 | Spyware, Technology News, Viruses and Scams
Yes, another threat is here that won’t patch itself on the Microsoft Windows updates. This security hole is in “Flash”, which is software that allows you to view Macromedia Flash sound and motion files over the internet. You likely have this...
by Scott | Feb 17, 2006 | Spam prevention, Spyware, Technology News, Web Hosting
This is a note to my web hosting customers in Portland and elsewhere, but since it applies universally, I’m posting the info here… OS Commerce and PHPbb are free, or “open source” software programs available with all PDXTC web hosting packages....
by Scott | Jan 4, 2006 | Spyware, Viruses and Scams
Some of these websites are up and some are down, but all these four will do the trick – Go do it NOW! http://www.grc.com/miscfiles/wmffix_hexblog14.exe http://www.hexblog.com/security/files/wmffix_hexblog14.exe...