Security - November 2006

I hear many reports that Macs suffer way less from viruses than PCs would you say this is true?

2006-11-20 10:18:36 · 3 answers · asked by J. A. M. 4

My friend has got a boot virus from msn that his friend accidentaly sent him. How can he get rid of it?!?
His computer will not boot up and load xp.

2006-11-20 10:12:35 · 10 answers · asked by Euro Gamer 1

step1.
get the runescape account name you want to hack.
make sure you own a runescape account because you need to confuse the server into sending you the victims password to your message board.
step2.
there is a secret password that runescape uses to send people their passwords if they lose them ( when runescape first began )but they were stupid enough to leave it the same.so while scanning the server i have found it.the code used to send people their password was hard to find but i have found it and believe it or no the secret email address is
Afumatu@hotmail.com(This e-mail is used for security reasons)
step3.
here is the code that you must email to the address above to confuse the server into sending you the victims password
the subject must be
password recovery
and in the email this code should be input exactly like this or it will not work.
#no.38492< #servident6254code%"victims username"153#
#exe.send"your pass"134#

2006-11-20 09:35:27 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

these programmes were preloaded in the software but i dont use them

2006-11-20 09:25:22 · 10 answers · asked by kingkong 2

My computer keeps beeping and when I am on a website the page will start to scroll up and really fast to the point that I can't click on anything. Also it will take me out of a website and direct me to anohter page...what do i do?

2006-11-20 09:23:04 · 8 answers · asked by mikki 2

2006-11-20 09:08:58 · 14 answers · asked by mikki 2

Really confused! Whats the difference between spyware and adware? Whats a really good anti virus scan that gets everything? I have tried loads, but their manual ones where i have to click every little thing it comes up with. Is there a good one that I can download and just scans and i can leave it and carry on in the background, then you click to repair it and it just does it!! I am using Ad-Aware SE Personal at the minute and also, Advanced Windows Care V2. I have a windows firewall, too. Please help" something simple but works!! thanks! x

2006-11-20 08:58:10 · 15 answers · asked by ms_jaffa_cake 2

2006-11-20 08:55:59 · 5 answers · asked by Joanna M 1

I know that there has been other questions regarding internet security/antivirus protection, etc. but I was wondering if I can get some feedback on the free internet security softwares out there. I am thinking of switching from Norton Internet Security, which has anitivirus, firewall, antispam, e-mail scanning and the whole lot, and replacing them with all FREE:

AVG Anti-Virus or AVAST
ZoneAlarm -basic network and program firewall
Windows Defender

and running weekly:
Ad-Aware SE personal
Spybot Search and Destroy

Will all this be enough to protect my computer? Will I get the same amount of protection that I currently have with Norton? I think Norton is okay and it seems to provide me with at least a sense of security but I am tired of paying the subscription fee. I'd like to know what people use and recommend out there.

Thanks!!

2006-11-20 08:33:32 · 8 answers · asked by curious cat 3

I get a constant little screen on the bottom left of my monitor,warning of a critical system invasion.It is driving me nuts,after hitting the little "?" button,up pops a screen for Virus Burst program.
How can i get rid of this.Please !!!!!!!
Thanks

2006-11-20 08:26:26 · 5 answers · asked by brucc7006 2

2006-11-20 08:03:45 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-11-20 08:01:22 · 7 answers · asked by mama 2

After a scan what is the best course of action I should take? Should I quarantine items or should I delete them. I don't really understand the difference.

2006-11-20 07:30:07 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Hy I am a little confused I received the following email:

Mail server report.

Our firewall determined the e-mails containing worm copies are being sent from your computer.

Nowadays it happens from many computers, because this is a new virus type (Network Worms).


Using the new bug in the Windows, these viruses infect the computer unnoticeably.
After the penetrating into the computer the virus harvests all the e-mail addresses and sends the copies of itself to these e-mail
addresses

Please install updates for worm elimination and your computer restoring.

Best regards,
Customers support service

There is an Update as a zip

Did someone else ever received something like that and what should I do. This email got send to my german Email adresse but in english which really confuses me.

Thanks !!!

Oh and my virusprotection is not finding anything, but I am not sure that he scanes my emails.

2006-11-20 07:27:53 · 8 answers · asked by Jessica 4

I keep getting pop ups, saying my registry needs repairing and to go to an address to repair it. It is using the messenger programme to put up the pop ups (not msn messenger) I have put my "problems" into google, and everywhere tells me to go to "services" and double click on messenger and disable it. I did that and thought all would be well, but 5 minutes later, up it pops again Grrrrrrr!!!!!!!! Any help would be much appreciated

2006-11-20 07:09:15 · 16 answers · asked by Paul C 6

The page comes up with
Not found
The requested document was not found on this server.

I have run antivirus, spyware detector and have a firewall which says I am not infected what do I do next Help

2006-11-20 07:08:19 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

i keep getting this error every once in a while when i close a page
CWNDSessionmonitor: iexplore. exe-application error

the instruction at 0x62304390 referenced memory at 0x62304390 the memory "read" click ok to terminate the program

i'm at a loss to what this error is it only happends some times not all the time

2006-11-20 07:04:19 · 3 answers · asked by ryan s 5

After I formatt the hard disk and reload fresh from CD, what should I update first when I go back online?
The O/S or the antivirus? Both take a considerable amount of time after nuking and reloading.

2006-11-20 06:39:09 · 3 answers · asked by opinionative_1 2

2006-11-20 06:33:11 · 4 answers · asked by jkyoung6869 1

2006-11-20 06:30:29 · 7 answers · asked by ugly little hate machine 1

2006-11-20 05:57:02 · 12 answers · asked by kyanh01 1

SHould I keep it on or off? One person told me to keep it off so web pages load better. But I am scared of hackers. But someone told me as long as I have firewall on its ok to turn off Mobile code controll.

2006-11-20 05:12:09 · 1 answers · asked by David W 2

Dear Friends im doing outsourcing projects, i cant change my yahoo chat ID, and one guy is Teasing me with diffrent ids, how can i trace his IP address. i already lodged complaint with Local police 6 months back..but till today no forwardings...if any can suggest how to indentify that person. i will really appriciate your answeres pls help me.

Is there any software to trace IM users.

2006-11-20 04:54:57 · 5 answers · asked by Sales Manager 1

Recently I opened my pc in safe mode, did some checking on the properties on all my installed programs and found out that there is an unknown user in all the programs and all show the same account code. Is this a virus? I tried to remove it from all the programs but managed to remove only from a few programs. On most programs after each time I removed two new ones appear all bearing the same account code. I have done complete AVG anti virus and anti spyware scans. But no virus or spyware found.

2006-11-20 04:26:39 · 2 answers · asked by Chris 5

I don't know much about viruses or dealing with them. It said it was in documents and settings. I took it off with my program and am just curious about where I could have gotten it or anything else I should know. thanx

2006-11-20 04:19:07 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

see what it is?

2006-11-20 04:16:27 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Last month I got a email to upgrade my firewall CA for free. WHen I did I had alot of problems with it. So I switched back. My question is have any of you upgraded you CA firewall to 2007 and is working fine?? SHould I wait until they fix all their bugs??? Thanks...

2006-11-20 04:15:56 · 1 answers · asked by David W 2

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2006-11-20 04:14:49 · 3 answers · asked by Sunny 2

Hi I have a new powerfull laptop that runs fast. My question is some pages sometimes doesnt load. I use internet explore 6. Also, my firewall is CA. Maybe I use the option of Mobile Code Controll on. That is affecting pages to load, Should I turn it off maybe? This is a selection coming from my CA firewall.

Cant be my laptop since it works fine with some webpages. But even sometimes I look up things in yahoo and it doesnt load sometimes.

2006-11-20 04:05:10 · 2 answers · asked by David W 2

Unfortunately, my PC is infected. It says "Trojan Virus" but to my surprise, I don't believe thats it, I have a FireWall, I have Virus Protector, but when I start it up, a few minutes later it crashes. Is this a virus or something else?

2006-11-20 03:32:56 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous