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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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Why Would You Pay For An Antivirus program?
Friday, March 26th, 2010 | Author: Brendan

In far to many of my house calls I still see people running Norton Antivirus or McAffee which are paid antiviral programs and require a large amount of your computers available resources (mainly RAM) to operate.  Norton is a fairly invasive program as well and leaves all sorts of registry keys and unused files behind when un-installed from one’s computer.  No need to worry if you have Norton or had; you can download the official software from Symantec (the maker of Norton) to remove this product.  CLICK HERE to visit Symantec’s site and download the removal tool.

So now what?

There is a free alternative which is all I recommend, it is called AVG Free 9.0.  This tool is, in my opinion far superior to Norton or other paid substitutes on the market currently.  AVG Free can be download by clicking here.

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