A powerful new computer virus has breached about 75,000 computers in 2,500 organizations across the globe, including the user accounts of various social networking sites, says internet security company NetWitness. The ZeuS Virus, or ZeuS Trojan, collects login information for online financial sites, social networking websites, and the e-mail systems of infected computers and relays [...]

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Botnets are dangerous.  Not only can botnet administrators steal your personal information, but often, on a whim, they can also simply kill your PC. The controllers of the Zeus/Zbot botnet did just that, hitting the kill switch and BSODing about 100,000 infected PCs. The Zeus/Zbot botnet first popped up back in March.  It swipes your [...]

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Is it the Conficker C worm or the Conflicker C worm?  Actually, the correct spelling is Conficker, no “L”, but it doesn’t matter. All that really matters is that you are prepared.  The hype around the Conficker C worm has been tremendous.  It has affected over 9 million computers, Microsoft has offered $250,000 for anyone [...]

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