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How To Do A Free Online Virus Scan

Do you think your computer might have been compromised? No anti-virus, no problem. You can do an online virus, spyware, and malware scan using some free tools on the web.

Greeting Card Virus

A computer virus has been circulating as a “Greeting Card” email message. The message title contains the words “Greeting Card”, “E-Greeting”, “Christmas Card”, “Online Greeting”, "Greeting for you" or some variance thereof.

Microsoft Plans to Give Away Anti-Virus Software

Microsoft has recently announced their plans to release free software to protect against viruses, spyware, and malware.

USB Thumb Drives Can Pose a Threat To Your Machine

Have you ever found a USB stick in the lobby of a hotel? Perhaps there are two or three in a pile or on a display that asks you to "take one". Maybe you work at a company and someone has dropped of a pamphlet or flier for a product and left a USB thumb drive behind with "literature" about the product.

AVG Anti-virus Kills Critical Windows XP User32.dll File

AVG anti-virus recently released an update to their virus definitions file which incorrectly detected a critical Windows file as being a Trojan horse program.

Obama Virus

Hackers and phishers are taking advantage of your need for election news by using President-elect Barack Obama's name to get you to click on links and run programs that will infect your machine with malware.

UPS Virus

A computer virus has been circulating as an email attachment. The “From” address indicates that the email came from a UPS representative. The virus is a zip file attachment with the names of “ups_invoice.zip” or “ups_tracking.zip”, or some variance thereof. The email is usually found to have the title of “UPS Tracking Number xxxxx” and states that a package you sent was not able to be delivered and that you are required ...