Mar

26

Irish ISPs rally against record label anti-piracy threat

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Feb

25

MS beefs up WinXP Pro’s anti-piracy nagware

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Microsoft wants to rein in more Windows XP pirates over the coming weeks, by pushing out a new version of its �nagware� which detects when a machine is running a fake copy of the OS.
The company�s Genuine Windows director Alex Kochis said yesterday that Redmond will release the latest version of its Windows Genuine Advantage […]

Feb

17

Another case of google links redirected, anti-spam sites blocked!

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Hello all!
I am experiencing exactly the same problems as ‘grayfox’ (His thread) and ‘lisaandre’ (Her thread). Needless to say it is driving me mad too and I’m starting to get the impression that my PC is becoming increasingly unstable as a result!
I’m not an expert with […]

Feb

4

Does anyone remember this anti-phishing tool??

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I remember seeing a tool that placed stars next to Google search results - green for safe, red for unsafe, etc. However, I cannot remember which software that was.
Thanks.
Harry
http://harry.cckerala.com
Last edited by musicollector; 16th May 2008 at 04:47.
Reason: ooops…missed the ‘D’ in the subject line…:(
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Feb

3

Is XP Anti-virus legit?

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At work, one of my colleagues has a program that will not remove from his computer called XP Anti-Virus 2.4.
He does not know when it installed, and when he used Add/Remove Programs (XP Pro) to remove it, it left and the came back.
When he clicks on […]

Feb

2

Anti Virus programs wont update and Anti Virus Sites blocked?

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This seems to be a common new problem. Mine started after falling asleep one night with the computer on. When I woke up the next morning I had the blue screen of death and everything was unresponsive so I did a hard shut down. When I […]

Jan

31

google links redirected, anti-spam sites blocked

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I have an infection I can’t get rid of. It began yesterday (1/12).
It began with google search (firefox 3.0.5) results being redirected to ad sites. Also, many links to ant-virus sites were blocked.
I searched online and found reference to a script virus causing the […]

Jan

5

website redirect and anti-virus won’t run

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Hi, my computer appears to have a virus/malware or something!
It is re-directing each time I try to go to www.avg.com and I am unable to install avg, spybot S&D or Lavasoft ad-aware se.
Also, I cannot get onto windows update website.
I have attached the computer’s hijack this […]

Jan

5

Cannot access anti-virus websites

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I did search for this, but couldn’t find a solution - all I learned was that my computer has a trojan blocking me from accessing any anti-virus websites which hence means I cannot download any updates or new software. It also will not let me download […]

Jan

4

Trojan/virus prefenting access to all anti-virus web sites

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About 10 days ago I started getting a notice that my anti virus data base was out of date. Normally this updates daily automatically. When I tried to update manually, I was blocked from the wesite.
This computer is a Dell, about 7 months old […]

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