Archive for April, 2016
Viceice exemplifies a subgroup of offending software that focuses on wreaking havoc with its victims’ Internet navigation. Specifically, if the aforementioned sample finds itself inside a Windows computer, both the default browser and other popular browsers running on the system will get out of hand. The homepage URL, new tab page and quite likely the […]
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ParetoLogic PC Health Advisor is an all-in-one computer optimization and maintenance suite you can rely on for smooth system performance and malware protection. When a computer begins acting up or even slows down to a crawl, the fix may take a variety of things to look at and address, but the main possible causes are […]
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As innocuous as they mostly are, freeware applications may cause problems indirectly because computer users often install potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) along the way and don’t even know it. The app called Innovate Direct exercises this sort of a drive-by propagation, where its stub installer stealthily accompanies simplistic media players, file downloaders and the like. […]
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Healthcare providers are being increasingly targeted by cybercriminals. A series of recent attacks against U.S. hospitals have shown just how vulnerable these types of organizations are in the face of ransomware, a type of aggressive computer malware that encrypts data and extorts a ransom for recovery. Servers of the MedStar healthcare company suffered a compromise […]
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The word “Petya” is the transliterated informal for Pyotr, a popular Russian name. A lot of its recent implications, however, have to do with a big computer security issue. Cybercriminals who are most likely operating from the above-mentioned state have devised a highly destructive piece of malicious code and named it the “Petya ransomware”. Not […]
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