Despite repeated alerts, tens of thousands may still lose their Internet service Monday unless they do a quick check of their computers for malware that could have taken over their machines more than a year ...
Jul 05, 2012
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(AP) -- Facebook is strengthening its security controls in an attempt to protect its 900 million users from spam and malicious content.
Apr 25, 2012
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(AP) -- For computer users, a few mouse clicks could mean the difference between staying online and losing Internet connections this summer.
Apr 21, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Romania based antivirus software company Softwin, makers of Bitdefender, have announced that they have found multiple instances of computers being infected with worms that have been infected ...
Jan 27, 2012
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Google on Tuesday began warning some users of its popular Internet search service that their computers may be infected with a virus.
Jul 20, 2011
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(AP) -- A malicious computer attack that appears to target Iran's nuclear plants can be modified to wreak havoc on industrial control systems around the world, and represents the most dire cyberthreat known to industry, ...
Nov 17, 2010
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(AP) -- Computers in companies, hospitals and schools around the world got stuck repeatedly rebooting themselves Wednesday after an antivirus program identified a normal Windows file as a virus.
Apr 21, 2010
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(AP) -- Microsoft's newest computer operating system has survived its first few weeks on the market without needing any security fixes.
Nov 10, 2009
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(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. says its new computer security program can be downloaded starting on Tuesday.
Sep 29, 2009
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(AP) -- Antivirus software cuts two ways. It's great at blocking known viruses, but it can sometimes misfire, mistakenly flagging clean files as malicious. That sends a computer into a tailspin trying to clean up stuff that's ...
Jul 10, 2009
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(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. has taken the rare step of warning about a serious computer security vulnerability it hasn't fixed yet.
Jul 06, 2009
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Microsoft is gearing up to offer Windows users a free real-time antivirus protection. Code name Morro, the antivirus product will be a hosted service. Morro works by routing all users Internet traffic to a ...
Jun 11, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Microsoft has decided to give Windows 7 users a tool that will allow them to run Windows XP applications in a virtual machine. The tool is free with Windows 7 but will only be available to ...
Apr 28, 2009
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(AP) -- The dreaded Conficker computer worm is stirring. Security experts say the worm's authors appear to be trying to build a big moneymaker, but not a cyber weapon of mass destruction as many people feared.
Apr 09, 2009
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(AP) -- The Conficker worm, a nasty computer infection that has poisoned millions of PCs, will start ramping up its efforts Wednesday to use those machines for cybercrimes. It's unclear whether everyday PC users will even ...
Mar 31, 2009
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