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Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Wed, 01 May 2019 15:51:12 +0000
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| A large database accessible online containing a huge amount of records has been found by researchers. The question is: who does it belong to, and what is it for? Categories: Tags: databaseexposedprivacyrecords |
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Sharky| Date: Wed, 01 May 2019 03:00:00 -0700
Malware from the web is slowly becoming a problem where this support pilot fish works.
“We have about two tickets a week with users saying they have thousands of viruses and they need to download software,” says fish.
“Now, every machine has virus protection, and everyone runs locked-down in user-only mode to prevent the rogue installation of software. But we have decided we need to increase our user awareness after the following ticket was received at the help desk:
“‘I just received an ominous warning that my computer was infected with several viruses. I tried running the program to remove these viruses (as it indicated for me to do), but I’m not sure it worked.