by Joseph Forbes | Mar 29, 2013 | DATA, INTERNET, Malware Reports, Microsoft's Malware Protection Center, SECURITY, Technical Support, Technicals
We recently came across the file 1ac150ddb964722b6b7c96808763b3e4d0472daf during the course of regular research. We detect this file as Trojan:Win32/Preflayer.A. The file had been distributed with the file name FlashPlayer.exe and not surprisingly, when executed, it...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 29, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, KnowledgeBase (KB), SECURITY, Technical Support, Technicals
The Distributed Computing & Security research team at the University of Hanover in Germany has implemented a browser encryption test page that analyses the way in which an HTTPS connection is established. One of the things it demonstrates is the accessing...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 24, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, INTERNET, SECURITY, Technical Support, Technicals
from the and-it-can-be-yours-for-free dept. UEFI guru Matthew Garrett, who cleared the Linux kernel in Samsung laptop bricking issues, has come to rescue beleaguered users by offering a survival guide enabling them to avoid similar issues. According to Garrett,...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 20, 2013 | HACKING, KnowledgeBase (KB), SECURITY, Technical Support
Apple Security: “Safe” Files Posted by Sean @ 14:22 GMT Things that Apple’s OS X 10.8.3 update patched — which may allow for arbitrary code execution — that are also on “safe” file type list used by Mac browsers: ImageIO (picture);...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 19, 2013 | DATA, KnowledgeBase (KB), Technical Support, Technicals
Support for Windows 7 will continue until 2020, but only if the latest Service Pack has been installed. Where this is not the case, support will end at Microsoft’s next Patch Day on 9 April 2013. The company has therefore notified users that, with immediate...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 17, 2013 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE, Technical Support
Yesterday a client of mine asked me to go along with him to purchase a new desktop. Income tax refund came in and he wanted to make sure the limited budget he had could afford him a good PC. Saturday afternoon we goto Best Buy (#201) to see what they had in stock....
