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Following my piece about Google Chrome making password information visible to users (Oh Sh*t - Google Chrome Doesn’t Really do THAT?!) - I got several messages from people who were more worried about my observation that Firefox does the same.
The problem was that anyone using your PC could view a list of all usernames and [...]

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What do I do if I have a Virus? (Virus Removal and Protection)
This article covers what to do if you have a virus, or suspect you have a virus on your computer.
THE CAUSE
You are usually vulnerable to a virus under the following conditions:
1. You have virus protection on your computer, but it is not [...]

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uStarMeStar - The ultimate stupidity test (uStarMeStar.com)
Note: zarbydoof.com and Defpics.com operate on the same principle. And all of these sites have hit the top of searched-for terms recently.
You may have received a spam message from ustarmestar asking you to visit it and see pictures of you, uploaded to uStarMeStar site. You don’t recall uploading [...]

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Yahoo virus / malware report is a false positive (Avast)
Yahoo virus and malware reports from around the globe were found to be a false positive, captured by anti-virus program “Avast!”.
Concerned users were reporting the following message when they accessed yahoo.com:
“A virus was found!”
Malware name: VBS:malware-gen
Malware type: Virus/Worm
Avast was quick to inform users on [...]

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MOST CURRENT - 20 June 08 14.15 GMT:
Things seem to have stabilised as the corrected dns settings filtered out across the web. There are still a small number of users accessing the instructions on what to do to get onto Photobucket, of which some would be due to local caches.
So I guess it’s almost situation [...]

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Above: Photobucket down - site as seen by some users yesterday.
Photobucket was hacked yesterday, using what seems like a dns hack*
*see “what is a DNS hack?” at the bottom of this post.
Because the Photobucket outage was dns based, it meant that some people could still access the site, whilst others either got a hackers message, [...]

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ThatDanny Exclusive!
I think this must be the start of a series. Government and private companies are producing secret documents, and then placing them on unsecured servers, for Google and the world to see.
On this occasion, aggrieved motorists are unlikely to mind these secret instructions being left open for all to see, but I don’t [...]

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