March 4, 2009 Alida Antonia Cornelius Spambots are infecting website forums using vBulletin software, then sending pornographic spam and exe files which tell you that your PC needs testing for viruses. This week,... read more...

If you ever get called asking for help diagnosing a computer problem or, like me, act as tech support for your parents, Technibble has a kit that might be useful to you.  Version 2 of their Computer Repair Utility Kit includes several programs that can be run from a flash drive to scan for and remo...

Most computer users are running computers with a Microsoft Windows operating system. That, all by itself, makes a computer susceptible to a virus or other dangerous or malicious software (”malware”). I’m not trashing Microsoft; I’m stating a fact. Microsoft Windows is so prev...

Computer cyber/virus attacks ‘to peak next Monday’ Bobbie Johnson technology correspondent Guardian.co.uk,  Monday November 17 2008 11.58 GMT We saw this last week and wanted to post-it today, as a Happy Monday To YOU !!!. Be Careful Out There Today - as this post explains, there’...

Anti-virus software managed to remove most of the viruses from my mother's computer. However, two files remain. How proactive do I need to be about deleting them? I am a Mac user and have no experience dealing with computer viruses, so please pardon any stupid statements I might make here. My mother...

This article looks at the real threat of viruses and what you can do to protect yourself. Where do computer virus myths come from? It’s hard to say. One minute you think you know how they work, and the next you’re being told you can get viruses from cookies, Javascript on Web pages, view...

I’ve had an interesting weekend with viruses on this compy. I don’t really have it licked, yet either. It started with an email Friday from La Angela saying that the background changed to an adware warning, and a bugs screen saver kicked in. Hoo, boy. What I discovered knows many names, ...

Windows XP TrojanFilter: I caught a trojan, cleaned it out, and now...100% CPU usage making my computer unusable, and I can't turn on Windows Update besides. With System Restore off, and every piece of software I've run so far telling me it's now clean, how can I fix my system without wiping my hard...

Have you heard about the storm worm? It's a particularly nasty computer virus that's been popping up all year in different forms. What's different about this virus is that it has a business model and is actually making money for the people who created it. And those people are using that money to pay...

By Brian Krebs, Special to The Washington Post   A previously unknown flaw in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system is leaving computer users vulnerable to spyware, viruses and other programs that could overtake their machines and has sent the company scrambling to come up with a fix. &nbs...