If your blog or website is infected with malware and/or blacklisted, you will lose a lot of traffic (and probably earnings) because it will not show up on search results and regular visitors will not visit your site because it is flagged as a dangerous site. To check whether your blog/website is infected with malware [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 27, 2011
A few days ago, Apple finally acknowledged the existence of the Mac Defender malware which has already victimized a lot of Mac users. Apple has also announced that they will soon be issuing a software update that will specifically detect and remove the Mac Defender malware and any of its variants (Mac Security, Mac Protector). [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 7, 2011
Hello folks! My apologies for the late edition of the Weekend Roundup. Tried to finish it and have it ready by yesterday but due to some personal business and unavoidable circumstances, I wasn’t able to publish it. Nevertheless, this week’s edition of the Weekend Roundup if full of very interesting and useful links so I [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 13, 2010
One of the things that make WordPress great and popular is the huge number of available free themes and plugins. Unfortunately, the popularity of free WordPress themes have been used by scammers, spammers and malicious users, as an opportunity to cash in and/or wreak havoc. Many of the free WordPress themes available on the Internet [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 15, 2010
One software that I always install on my personal computer or recommend to family and friends is Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware – a free malware removal tool. It’s also one of the programs I use to fix/clean up client’s computers. Like I’ve mentioned before, I am the family desktop support person, so when family and friends need [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 18, 2010
If you receive a password reset email from Facebook on your inbox, be careful! Facebook users are being warned of a malicious email password reset scam that is making its rounds and quickly spreading across the social network the past couple of days. This massive spam run is the latest version of malicious emails targetting [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, February 1, 2009
Hope everyone is having a good weekend so far. Unlike the previous weekends, this weekend was not that busy for me so I was able to post this edition of the Weekend Roundup on time. I also made sure that I did this roundup early because we’ll be attending a birthday party and also be [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 3, 2007
Found this article from Derek Punsalan’s blog 5ThirtyOne. Templates Browser dot com is collecting WordPress & Joomla public themes and modifying them by inserting hidden spam or malware links that can compromise the end user then re-distributing it in their site. These spam and malware links are inserted in a functions.php file that comes with [...]
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Friday, August 19, 2011
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