prevention

About half an hour ago I got a random pop up saying windows explorer.exe has stopped working when I was typing in the start search bar, I was trying to type in cpu, but it froze before I could typed the u. I have norton antivirus and superantispyware so im positive it is not a virus. Its only...

I do not know how did this happen. Someone posted a question in my Inbox. I did not ask for it, and I do not answer questions in "private session " format. Please move it back to appropriate forum so that everyone can have a crack at it. I do NOT want it in my Inbox. Thank you. This is the...

Original release date: January 17, 2014 | Last revised: February 09, 2014 Systems Affected Certain UDP protocols have been identified as potential attack vectors: DNS NTP SNMPv2 NetBIOS SSDP CharGEN QOTD BitTorrent Kad Quake Network Protocol Steam Protocol Overview A Distributed...

Original release date: November 05, 2013 | Last revised: November 06, 2013 Systems Affected Microsoft Windows systems running Windows 7, Vista, and XP operating systems Overview US-CERT is aware of a malware campaign that surfaced in 2013 and is associated with an increasing number of...

The Council for the Better Business Bureaus found that 47% of all identity theft related crimes are performed through associations with friends, neighbors, relatives, or someone known to the victim. Consumer also detect almost half of all fraud causes - again 47%. Let's make that number less by...

Hello all, The following is just my opinion and preference based on my personal experience and available independent test lab data. I prefer a 3rd party solution to the inherent Microsoft Security Essentials solution (embedded in Windows 8) for the following reasons: MSE is a "reactionary"...

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How do I stop hardware diver updates from appearing in Windows Update?

Discusses how to remove viruses, spyware, rogue software, malware, Microsoft Security Essentials, Microsoft Safety Scanner and Windows Defender Offline Beta. More...

We have been forced into the difficult position of spam blocking Yahoo! Vietnam due to over two hundred suspected spam-related accounts using that mail service. The admin team is concerned about the free flow of information between our website and the nation of Vietnam being disturbed by these...

hi all :) Straight to it, my pc just bluescreened on me i was playing BF3 with youtube in the background , i do this quite regularly and my pc has never BSOD before because of it. it has BSOD me before and it was due to my wirless adapter apparantly, (though i thought i fixed this by updating...

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I heard about news that Conficker busted 12 million pc if yes then plz tell me the cure and prevention from this worm

Security Recommendations to Prevent Cyber Intrusions Syndicated from the United States Security Readiness Team (US-CERT). Link Removed - Invalid URL

A controversial posting on the U.S. Navy's Facebook page meant to raise awareness on sexual assault prevention has followers asking, "Is this some kind of joke?" Read Full Story: Link Removed

Allentown police received a report of a man exposing himself on Sept. 11 at the Kmart at 1502 S. Fourth St. Police spoke to a security guard who said a man was following a girl throughout the store and exposed himself in front of her and might have touched her. They should have gave him 44...

prevent access to registry editing tools is missing pls help Link Removed

We've just updated Link Removed due to 404 Error to let customers know that we now have an automated "Fix It" available to implement the workaround we first outlined in our original posting on Friday, July 16, 2010. More information is available in the KB article 2286198, but in summary running...

Ounce of prevention... The old saying that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure is a huge understatement when it comes to dealing with virus threats. Virus detection programs do just THAT... they DETECT viruses that have already infected your system. Some AV programs run all the time...

I have updates set to download but not install. Still sometimes (like on airplanes when I'm trying to shutdown in a hurry), I get the message "Installig Updates, Please do not shutdown" when I'm trying to shut it down. Any way to prevent that?