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Department of Justice and FBI Take Down Huge Coreflood Botnet

S.Hogan / April 19, 2011

Score one for the good guys this week as the The FBI and US Department of Justice unleash a powerful and quick take down of the “Coreflood” botnet.

Coreflood was a massive international network of more than two million infected computers; computers that were used to empty bank accounts, score sensitive corporate data and steal untold financial data. This is a huge victory as this particular botnet has been in operation for 10 years.

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Ask Leo: Why Outlook Express Must Die

Leo Notenboom / April 18, 2011

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By Leo Notenboom

Outlook Express’s day has come and gone. It’s unsupported and often loses email. I’ll explain what I think you should do instead.

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TechBite: A Nifty Spam Tracking Trick

Steve Bass / April 13, 2011

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By Steve Bass

There’s nothing you can do to prevent a third party from
exposing your e-mail address. But there’s a handy trick to
monitor if a company you’ve given an e-mail address to is
using it to spam you. And then block it so you’ll never
see it again.

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SuperShield Video Contest

PC Matic Cybersecurity / April 7, 2011

We’re asking you to make a video to help get the word out about the all new SuperShield protection technology now available with PC Matic.

We decided to start by supplying you with a video for inspiration and a link to all of the details behind the new SuperShield technology.

You do the rest…feel free to sing, dance or rap….but, please be creative!
Get Started Here

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Malware Minute: Fake System Defrag

GFI Vipre / April 6, 2011

Windows Restore is a fake system defragmenter, lurking on the internet intended to infect computer after computer. Scammers created Windows Restore to look like a useful PC performance enhancing tool, yet it is in fact a type of virus called a rogue.

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More of Steve Bass’s Time Wasters – April 2011

Steve Bass / April 6, 2011

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3 great new videos, witty & insightful Amazon reviewers and Blueprint.

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Windows Secrets Newsletter: Simple change pumps up Windows 7 networks

Windows Secrets Newsletter / April 6, 2011

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Improve your local network throughput by as much as 12% with two clicks.

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Customer Service

S.Hogan / April 6, 2011

This past year I decided I needed to get out and get some fresh air. I had already tried golf and that was a disaster. I also decided there was no way I was going to stuff 222 lbs into a pair of flimsy nylon sport shorts, so running was out of the question. I thought about kayaking but since I live in S.W. Florida that seemed kinda like sticking a 200+ lb. meat pie in front of America’s deadliest predator, the alligator.

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Dodge Retort: Mobile technology not on par with desktop

John Dodge / April 5, 2011

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I have been on the road a couple of times this year and for all the talk of the mobile technology wonderment, it’s still considerably harder to get work done than at your desk.

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