Viruses and Scams Categorized Posts

Mars as Big as the Moon Hoax

by Scott | Jul 15, 2006 | Viruses and Scams

My son and I briefly fell for a hoax email from one of his little league parents that claimed August 27th, the Red Planet would be spectacular, and visible wit hthe naked eye as large as the moon. I actually put it in my Outlook calendar, then a minute later, it...

What’s Ransomware?

by Scott | Jun 29, 2006 | Spyware, Technology News, Viruses and Scams

Ransomware is a new term for spyware that actually extorts money from you, and it’s sweeping the world like wildfire. In a nutshell, imagine you wake up one day to find that all of your files have been encrypted on your computer. That’s right, you’re...

Oregon Department Of Revenue Compromised

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...

A Virus With a Purpose – To Steal Our Money

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...

“Click To activate and use this control” driving you nuts?

by Scott | May 12, 2006 | General interest, Microsoft, Viruses and Scams, Web Design

In your Internet Explorer web browser, do some websites appear to be “broken”? Do Flash menus and some other web page items frequently have a dotted line around them? When you put your mouse over them, do you see a small yellow box proclaiming that you...

True Internet Rumor

by Scott | May 12, 2006 | Viruses and Scams

I’ve really never seen a mass forwarded email rumor be true anymore, but I got this one about free 411 calling from your home phone – Hi all, This REALLY works – yay! I programmed it into my cell phone for free 411 calls – I used to pay $1.40...