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Safe Computing
More information about OnlineFamily.Norton
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“A rootkit infection may be the cause of a Windows Blue Screen of Death issue experienced by Windows XP users who applied the latest round of Microsoft patches. It appears that the affected Windows PCs had the rootkit infection prior to deploying the Microsoft patches. Researcher Patrick W. Barnes, investigating the issue, has isolated the [...]
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OnlineFamily.Norton surveyed a whole lot of parents and put a great deal of thought into the core features needed to provide a robust communication-based tool that aims to bring you and your family closer together as you work to manage your online lifestyles.
Key features of OnlineFamily.Norton include:
Personal Profiles
Your child is unique. You can manage, update, [...]
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There is a new Facebook worm which will direct you to a link containing pornography. The following are the details of the worm:
The hook to the new Facebook worm appears in a friend’s profile as the racy image at left.
Click the image, and you are brought to a Web page with the same image.
Analysis [...]
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Scareware is a type of malware designed to trick victims into purchasing and downloading useless and potentially dangerous software.
Scareware, which generates pop-ups that resemble Windows system messages, usually purports to be antivirus or antispyware software, a firewall application or a registry cleaner. The messages typically say that a large number of problems — such as [...]
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New attack fells Internet Explorer
A hacker has posted attack code that could be used to break into a PC running older versions of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser.
The code was posted Friday to the Bugtraq mailing list by an unidentified hacker. According to security vendor Symantec, the code does not always work properly, but it [...]
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