February has already begun, which means Valentine’s Day is close at hand. As usual, spammers will definitely hype up their malicious activities. It is only the first day of the so-called “love month” but we have already seen at least two spam samples leveraging one of the most-celebrated special occasions when people flock to websites [...]
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Early Hearts’ Day Presents from Spammers
Small businesses looking to beef up their network security will be glad to see that Netgear has announced the release of the ProSecure UTM5, a scaled-down version of its existing ProSecure UTM (Unified Threat Management) product lineup priced for 5-user networks.
The Internet has grown to become a massive venue for information exchange that everything a user encounters on the Web may potentially be treacherous, including supposed antivirus software. Trend Micro Threat Encyclopedia has, so far, over 2,000 entries related to FAKEAV.
Many naive users still fall for the age-old ruse that rogue antivirus peddlers use—scareware tactics—to [...]
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Much Ado About FAKEAV
