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Spyware and Virus News and Articles
Computer Virus Protection (First Coast News)
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Here comes Santa Clause - computer virus (Ireland Business World)
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Santa delivers more Christmas malware (InfoWorld)
( InfoWorld ) - PC users are being spoiled rotten this year: another piece of malware purporting to be a message from Santa is delivering surprise gifts over the Internet disguised in an electronic greetings card. The Trojan horse "MerryX.A" is delivered in an e-mail which encourages the recipient to open an attached "animation". While the animation of Santa Claus delivering presents
Trojan Delivers Malware to Windows PCs (HardwareZone)
A new Trojan horse program was infecting PCs on Wednesday, exploiting a hole in Windows systems to sneak onto computers, then dropping adware or spyware or turning them into zombies, according to several Internet security companies.
Computer Virus Downloads Pirate Movies (DVD-Recordable)
Hackers have developed a sneaky technique for installing pirated movie files on Windows PCs infected with the lockx.exe rootkit. Doctored copies of BitTorrent are loaded on infected machines and used to download Disney movies.
New computer virus emerges (India Daily)
With the detection of a "Trojan" e-mail named "TROJ_SAMX.A", Net users have been advised to check whether their virus programme has been updated to prevent it from getting into their computers. The virus has been detected by TrendLabs of Trend Micro, a leader in network anti-virus.