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Disable Writing to a USB Drive

admin — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:42:53 +0000

This is a useful security measure you can set on your computers that will stop all users from writing anything to a USB drive, this could stop people from stealing info from your PC’s.

This tweak requires a pretty simple registry hack;

Open regedit
Navigate here: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies
Create a new DWORD
Call it WriteProtect
Set the value to 00000001
Reboot your computer
Done

The Dangers of Adware

admin — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:55:42 +0000

Adware or advertising-supported software is any software package which automatically plays, displays, or downloads advertising material to a computer after the software is installed on it or while the application is being used. Some types of adware are also spyware and can be classified as privacy-invasive software.

Adware is software with advertising functions integrated into or bundled with a program. It is usually seen by the programmer as a way to recover programming development costs, and in some cases it may allow the program to be provided to the user free of charge or at a reduced price. The advertising income may allow or motivate the programmer to continue to write, maintain and upgrade the software product.

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Obama Malware

admin — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 01:31:36 +0000

Once again hackers have taken advantage of a major event to try and spread their dangerous malware all over the web. The same day that Barack Obama won the US election several ‘Obama’ themed malware emails have spread their dangerous wings all over the web.

Most of the emails make you believe you are being linked to some form of election news or celebration site when in fact you probably are downloading a dangerous piece of malware.

A major one that is being spread online sends the user to this page with a ‘video’ of a new speech by Obama;

The user is then prompted to open the video which in fact is not a new video but is a very dangerous trojan that will infect your PC.

If you do want to get new information on the election/Obama then never open anything from an email you are unsure of, just go to one of he major news websites and they will have all the information you need.

If you have downloaded a Obama trojan then you can use this Malware scan to find it and remove it – Click Here for a Malware Scan