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Phishing in 2019
Does anyone feel that phishing has developed? E.g. in my personal feeling, there are fewer email scams nowadays. Your thoughts, guys?- Pictogrram
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- Forum: General Computing
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Windows 10 Fake Microsoft has locked your your computer, malware?
Hi My wife just got one of those Microsoft has locked your computer because you are using a fake version of Windows messages. This one even had an official sounding voice playing a threatening message. The computer was locked up, so I Control Alt Deleted out and shut the computer down and...- MikeHawthorne
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Risk from 247-helpdesk
I recently made a support call to what I thought was HP customer support. The rep that answered tried to convince me I had a virus in my hard drive and that I needed to purchase Microsoft Forefront Security Service. At this point I ended the call, however I did foolishly allow the rep to access...- Jim4538
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- Forum: Windows Security
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IE9 Best for malware
According to an article by Ars Technica and work done by the NSS labs: Second place went to IE8 with Safari 5, Chrome 10, and Firefox 4 coming in third. The report also gives the percentages attained by each browser at blocking malware. Both IE9 and IE8 were in the 90% or above area. Internet...- kemical
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- Forum: Windows News
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Windows 7 New Email Scams Stealthier Than Ever: Report
An online security firm says hackers are putting renewed efforts into breaching web email accounts One is based on phishing, the other on the MHTML procol. Read Full Story: New Email Scams Stealthier Than Ever: Report / Infopackets.com- reghakr
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- Forum: Windows Security
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Windows 7 Fake Anti-viruses!Read carefully!PC infection.
From many searches and many videos,i found fake antiviruses infecting PC:mad:,Beware of:Antivirus 360,System security,Windows police,Windows XP police.And many more,they block every page at internet,they say clean files as viruses.Don't download any weird thing that you don't know...- Kostas8221
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- Forum: Windows Security
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Windows 7 I clicked on a website link in a Yahoo search but got redirected to a blank page that tried to scan
Yesterday I was browsing the web on Yahoo search like I always do. And I was searching for a well known social web hosting forum.That I was visiting two weeks ago and had no problems getting onto that site then. I will not tell you the link as I do not want anyone else to click on it, as it is...- Andrea Borman
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Cat and mouse game begins: Microsoft blacklists leaked Windows 7 Key
By Tim Conneally, Betanews The Lenovo OEM key that leaked earlier this week and allowed Windows 7 Ultimate to be cracked is being blacklisted, according to a blog post last night from Alex Kochis, Director of Genuine Windows at Microsoft. Kochis says, "Yesterday we were alerted to reports of a...- News
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Windows 7 Careful what you click on
Windows 7 Fail - F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab Still a problem even in windows 7 .- whoosh
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- Forum: Windows News
