Category Archives: Security

Computer Security: Learning about botnets

By Donnie Bachan | Published: January 21, 2009
TechRepublic had an interesting article on Botnets and Hosts file pharming. This is something that most people are unaware of while their computers are being silently used by remote attackers.  http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=738&tag=nl.e036 There are a few tools that I would recommend getting Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 which is a pretty comprehensive threat protection suite.
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Windows XP Professional does not load explorer.exe

By Donnie Bachan | Published: September 22, 2008
As one of two technical people at my company I am one of the people who gets called on whenever there is a hardware or software issue of any kind. We have tried to school our users on the dangers of attachments and have implemented software to attempt to prevent viruses entering the network but [...]
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