Posts Tagged ‘trojan’
Can’t open www.hotmail.com
0 Comments | Monday, August 3rd, 2009
Problem Description When you enter the URL www.hotmail.com into Internet Explorer you get an error page and the URL changes. You have no problem accessing Hotmail from another computer such as your office or a friends. Common Symptoms You enter www.hotmail.com into your browser and you get the error “The page cannot be displayed” The [...]
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Download: SDFix.exe
21 Comments | Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
SDFix is a free utility to remove thousands of known viruses such as trojans and worms. Just download it and run SDFix.exe and it will scan your system and remove any infections that it finds and will produce a detailed report describing it’s actions.
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Can’t open www.gmail.com
6 Comments | Saturday, July 18th, 2009
When you enter the URL www.gmail.com or http://www.gmail.com or gmail.com into Internet Explorer you get an error page and the URL changes. This is caused by the so called Gmail redirect virus.
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Virus & Spyware Guide – Part 2
1 Comments | Monday, September 22nd, 2008
What Is Spyware? spyware: “programs that surreptitiously monitor and report the actions of a computer user” – Wikipedia Essentially, malware is the master term for anything that harms your system maliciously and as such is short for the term MALicious softWARE. It is a common misconception that malware is ‘another’ type of virus or spyware. [...]
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Virus & Spyware Guide – Part 1
2 Comments | Thursday, September 18th, 2008
What’s a virus? “a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer …” – Princeton University There are literally thousands or possibly millions of viruses on the internet today. It’s practically impossible to avoid them if you use a Windows PC [...]
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