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Dangerous ‘Dislike’ Scam Spreading on Facebook
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 | Author: Brendan

It seems that everyone uses FaceBook these days and due to the billions of users there are a growing number of security threats to be aware of.

There are many opportunities to “Like” content on Facebook — and increasingly on sites all over the web — but Facebook doesn’t offer a “Dislike” button that people who don’t like a status update or a New York Times story can click to express their opinion. Facebook wants you to remember this.

That’s because a bogus Dislike button is appearing as an option on status updates. When a user clicks this nefarious button, he or she may wind up with more reason to dislike the page: The scam steals their identity or hijacks their account.

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“Beware of the fake Facebook ‘Dislike’ button. As always, we advise you not to click on suspicious links on Facebook,” Facebook said in a security post. “We’re working hard to stop these from spreading. If you see one, report it to us, and warn any friends who might be affected.”

So be careful and we will attempt to bring to light more FaceBook scams as they are becoming more and more commonplace.

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Personal Antivirus 2010 Mal-ware Scam
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 | Author: Brendan

So all of a sudden you are seeing what looks to be an anti-virus program popping up and telling you that your computer is infected.  It tells you to go online and renew your subscription to fix these issues, DON’T BE ONE OF THE MILLIONS TRICKED BY THIS PROGRAM.  This is a scam, this is a program which limits what you can do until you go pay for this fake software and then after paying they download more harmful files (spyware and adware) to your computer.

If you see this screen (or one similar) you have been infected:

AntiVirus Malware Fix

So how do I get rid of it?

First off, if you are not an experience and confidence pc user, I would contact a local computer repair company and get it fixed immediately.

If you do feel comfortable, lets get rid of this little problem.

1.  Turn off computer/Turn back on.

2. Then when the computer is just starting up (with black screen), press F8 and select “Load windows in safe mode, with networking”.  (Running in safe mode will not allow this program to start up when windows loads).

3. Open your web browser, and download  Malwarebytes, click here, and then install (free version will do the trick).

4. Open Malwarebytes after installation and run the update process.  Then do a Full Scan and remove all infected files.

5.  Restart your computer and load normally, then run the Malwarebytes Full Scan again and remove infected files.

Your computer should be fixed now but if for some reason the problem isn’t corrected, you should contact a service professional as the program can set up its installation in the startup folder so meaning it will re-install every time you load windows.

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Malware Definition
Sunday, March 14th, 2010 | Author: Brendan

Ok.. so you have been hearing about malware and you are probably asking yourself, what is malware?

Malware which is short for malicious software, is software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without the owner’s informed consent.

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