Is the NSA-FBI PRISM program being used to invade your privacy?
Lately with news breaking about privacy and surveillance, more and more people are now wondering, what is the PRISIM program? The PRISM program is a surveillance program electronically operated by the NSA (National Security Agency) used to collect data. The intent of the program is to search for patterns that would lead to possible terrorist activity. With the surface of this program does it have people doubting their personal privacy? Lists of company names and possible forms of obtaining information have surfaced on the internet ranging from e-mails via yahoo, images and video from sources such as YouTube and the chance of ...
Facebook Page Owners Beware of Phishers Exploiting Facebook Security
Facebook scams are almost like a perpetual flu without a cure. The scams come on and spread while morphing into something more serious each time. The latest scam to make rounds on the 1 billion-user-strong social network is one targeting Facebook page owners. This scam pretends to be a message from Facebook security claiming that Facebook is rolling out a new security feature to protect page owners. What is disturbing about this alleged Facebook security message is that it eventually leads users or Facebook page owners to relinquish their login details in what is called a “Fan Page Verification Program”. This fan ...
Congress Wants to Know if Google is Protecting Privacy with Google Glass
Now days it seems as if it is second nature to have some form of the government gets all in the Kool-Aid without really knowing the flavor. Google is one of the latest companies in the crosshairs of Congress as they probe to find out of the new Google Glass is truly protecting people’s privacy. I know what you are thinking, Google Glass is going to be the end-all for current laxidasical privacy laws within the realm of our technology. What Congress has done thus far is sent a letter to Google listing eight specific privacy areas concerning Google Glass that ...
Microsoft Warns Users of New Trojan Hijacking Facebook Account Access
Facebook continues to be on the radar screen for us as cybercrooks find new creative ways to attack the 1-billion plus strong social network giant and user accounts. In the recent rash of attacks, security experts from Microsoft have found were a new Trojan is hijacking Facebook accounts. Microsoft has just issued a warning that a relatively new Trojan horse, named Trojan:JS/Febipos.A, attempts to hijack Facebook accounts. In hijacking Facebook accounts, the cybercrooks behind the Trojan horse could gain access to specific hacked accounts.
Beware: Hackers and Scammers Exploiting Boston Marathon Bombings To Spread Malware
The deadly bombings that took place in Boston during the marathon have received much press over the past few days as the nation comes together to send their thoughts and prayers to all of the victims and injured. At the same time heartless scammers are using the Boston Marathon Bombing incident to exploit so they are able to spread various types of malware onto computers. Image 1- Example of a computer user going to a link included in a Boston Marathon Bombing spam message… it displays a pop-up to download a malicious file titled “boston.avi______.exe”. It is a pretty sad world that ...
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Remove Safe Monitor Adware
Safe Monitor is a program that may be obtained for free but is known to load random and annoying in-text ads. These ads may appear when Safe Monitor is loaded and you roll-over particular text within an internet site. These Safe Monitor ads may load third party data promoting random items and eventually cause redirects to unwanted... [Read more...]
Remove Internet Security Protection Malware
Internet Security Protection is a bogus antispyware/antivirus program and variation of the Internet Security family of rogue antispyware applications (Internet Security 2014, Internet Security Plus and others). Internet Security Protection is known for its repeated and aggravating popup alerts attempting to warn you of it detecting... [Read more...]
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Remove Internet Security Plus Malware
The program known as Internet Security Plus is a newer variation coming out of the growing family of fake antispyware programs falling under the “Internet Security” naming structure. The Internet Security Plus application is one that uses a virtually identical interface to that of previous iterations of Internet Security fake... [Read more...]
Remove Pc Optimizer Pro
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Remove Ievbz.com Redirect Virus (Browser Hijacker)
This site is designed to generate money for the creator by prompting you to take a quiz or short survey with the opportunity to win money in the form of a $1,000 gift card or an iPad mini. Usually computer users are re-directed to this site from a link that has been downloaded to your computer from a random download site that distributes... [Read more...]
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Remove ‘[Filename].exe contained a virus and was deleted’ Fake Message
The ‘[Filename].exe contained a virus and was deleted’ fake message is a notification that may pop-up on your screen as a result of you having a Trojan horse installed on your system. Through this Trojan horse, found to be related to the ZeroAccess rootkit infection, a system may be put at risk of being compromised from a remote... [Read more...]
Remove Websearch.seachsupporter.info Browser Hijacker
The Websearch.seachsupporter.info site has been found to be a questionable and potentially malicious website related to the Smart Address Bar add-on. Websearch.seachsupporter.info is known to have components installed from other bundled software where the installation program will load the related files causing your web browser to... [Read more...]
Remove Produtools Maps Toolbar
Produtools is a toolbar add-on extension that usually populates popular web browsers like Google Chrome, internet Explorer and Firefox with a feature-set that will change your default home page and search page. Produtools Maps Toolbar tends to collect information about your web browsing habits and sends the data to OurToolbar to... [Read more...]
Remove Utorrent Toolbar and Browser Hijacker
There is a web browser add-on and extension called the Utorrent Toolbar, which is known for providing an alternate means of searching the internet aside from normal search engines like Google or Bing. Utorrent Toolbar has an association with the original uTorrent warez distribution and search.conduit.com search engine. These entities... [Read more...]
Remove Montera Toolbar Add-Ons Extensions
The Montera Toolbar is an add-on found to be created by the same company that developed Claro Search Toolbar. Montera Toolbar is known to be somewhat aggravating in its actions and loading on most popular web browser programs (Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox). Even though the Montera Toolbar is not an actual computer virus, it... [Read more...]
Remove Findr Toolbar and Search (go.findrsearch.com removal)
The Findr Toolbar and Search add-on is a result of computer users obtaining free software from the internet. Usually the Findr Toolbar and Search add-on will install with other software where the installer application will automatically load Findr Toolbar and Search but giving you the discrete option of de-selecting the install... [Read more...]
Remove Internet Security Premium Malware
Internet Security Premium is a bogus security program that is known for imitating the functions and looks of a legitimate antispyware application for Windows PCs. The Internet Security Premium program has a user interface that takes many of its cues from known and trusted antispyware or antivirus applications currently available... [Read more...]
Remove Vaf Music Toolbar (Vafmusic Community Toolbar removal)
A good number of computer users have sent in reports of having a Vaf Music Toolbar installed on their system and web browsers and cannot easily remove it through the control panel. We have dug into this situation and found that Vaf Music Toolbar may be a legitimate toolbar or add-on but has rather questionable actions of changing... [Read more...]
Remove V9 Portal Site (V9.com Redirect Virus) Browser Hijacker
The V9 Portal Site or V9.com (V9.com/us), is a generic internet search engine. It was created by Beijing ELEX Technology Co., LTD based out of China. Many computer users have reported cases where they are all of a sudden redirected constantly to the V9.com website. This is mainly due to them installing some sort of program from... [Read more...]
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Is the NSA-FBI PRISM program being used to invade your privacy?
Lately with news breaking about privacy and surveillance, more and more people are now wondering, what is the PRISIM program? The PRISM program is a surveillance program electronically operated by the NSA (National Security Agency) used to collect data. The intent of the program is to search for patterns that would lead to possible... [Read more...]
Facebook Page Owners Beware of Phishers Exploiting Facebook Security
Facebook scams are almost like a perpetual flu without a cure. The scams come on and spread while morphing into something more serious each time. The latest scam to make rounds on the 1 billion-user-strong social network is one targeting Facebook page owners. This scam pretends to be a message from Facebook security claiming that... [Read more...]
Congress Wants to Know if Google is Protecting Privacy with Google Glass
Now days it seems as if it is second nature to have some form of the government gets all in the Kool-Aid without really knowing the flavor. Google is one of the latest companies in the crosshairs of Congress as they probe to find out of the new Google Glass is truly protecting people’s privacy. I know what you are thinking, Google... [Read more...]
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How to fix Iertutil.dll error
Iertutil.dll is an important registry file that can be corrupted when booting Windows up. It can also be corrupted during the installation of certain programs, or moved on accident. While often times the issue is the direct result of user error, it could also indicate malicious files at work on your computer or hard drive failure.... [Read more...]
How to Fix D3dx9_30.dll Error (Not Found Issue)
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Fixing Wuauclt.dll error
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Fixing Netapi32.dll/Net Win32 API.dll error
If you are receiving the Netapi32.dll error (also called net Win32 API.dll) then you have probably noticed several programs not functioning appropriately. In short, this .dll file is needed for many programs to interact with Microsoft networks. A host of issues could lead to an issue with Netapi32. Fixing the Netapi32/Win32 API.dll... [Read more...]
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