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This is a follow-up to my earlier article ‘How do people make money off of Viruses‘ and is from an Internet Storm Center diary entry describing very simply what viruses…

Ok, for the record, our stance on new Microsoft operating systems is (and always has been) to hold off until at least Service Pack 1 and let someone else find…

I saw this article today and it hit me that, dang, that would be an awesome tool to have from the antivirus, rather than having to try to go all…

A question that we get asked regularly is “How do people make money from viruses?”.  This is a topic that, for many, is hard to get their brain around.  I’ve…

Just wanted to remind everyone that Cyber Tech Cafe would be giving out candy as part of the Downtown trick-or-treating tomorrow from 3:00pm to 5:00pm.  If you’re going to be…

We have just noted an issue with some of our outbound emails being queued, resulting in some non-delivery reports.  We have confirmed that none of our servers are blacklisted and…

Back on 9 October, I reported on a worm that was spreading (primarily) via Skype.  Today, I found a good write-up on the worm, how it spread and a very…

There is a new worm making the rounds that is specifically targeting Skype users.  There are details in the linked article but the short story is that Skype users are…

Just this week (or was it last week?) I was asked again by a client why he needed to purchase a firewall when his ISP was going to give him…