What is the best Virus protection?

Posted by Alex | Tech News,Virus Alerts | Wednesday 28 October 2009 11:37 am

After almost 15 years of installing and using over 30 different brands of virus scanners that have become popular, I have finally found the diamond in the rough. I have been using ESET Nod32 Antivirus for the past 365 days and highly recommend it to anyone. ESET NOD32 outperforms all other virus scanners on the [...]

Virus hits DPS computer system

Posted by Alex | Tech News,Virus Alerts | Tuesday 16 June 2009 1:15 am

The Associated Press April 15, 2009, 7:26PM AUSTIN, Texas — A virus has hit the Texas Department of Public Safety computer system but a spokeswoman said at no time was citizen safety compromised. DPS spokeswoman Tela Mange said in a statement that the virus that hit Wednesday affected internal communications and some external services such [...]

Cyberspace 9/11 is here

Posted by Alex | Tech News,Virus Alerts | Tuesday 16 June 2009 1:15 am

WEBWIRE – Friday, April 03, 2009 Cyberspace 9/11 is here. A trojan worm similar to the planes that crashed into the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 are causing havoc to companies such as Time Warner Cable, Register.com and UltraDNS owned by Neustar and to millions of their customers throughout the United States and Europe. [...]

Conficker worm hits University of Utah computers

Posted by Alex | Tech News,Virus Alerts | Tuesday 16 June 2009 1:14 am

Yahoo! News Apr 12, 2009 8:11 am SALT LAKE CITY – University of Utah officials say a computer virus has infected more than 700 campus computers, including those at the school’s three hospitals. University health sciences spokesman Chris Nelson said the outbreak of the Conficker worm, which can slow computers and steal personal information, was [...]

Conficker D-Day Arrives; Worm Phones Home (Quietly)

Posted by Alex | Tech News,Virus Alerts | Tuesday 16 June 2009 1:13 am

PCWorld.com Apr 1, 2009 11:32 am The Conficker worm today has begun to phone home for instructions but has done little else. Conficker was programmed to today begin actively visiting 500 out of 50,000 randomly generated web addresses to receive new instructions on how to behave. Conficker has begun to do this, according to security [...]