Backspin: Place your bets against malware The response to my recent Gearhead and Backspin columns on malware has been amazing! And the range of suggestions has ranged from admit defeat, wipe the system, and start again to fight the good fight and don't give in. Also: Giving in to malware Gibbs thought he'd fixed his problem with malware on a Windows XP system, but as it turns out, he just made the malware work better. Here's the sad tale. Malware hunting One of Gibbs' Windows XP machines is acting up. Again. Looks like he's got a case of malware but it seems to be a little hard to find. Malwarebytes finds pesky Trojan The last Gearhead column wherein Gibbs discovered that his Windows XP machine was acting weirdly generated a huge amount of reader feedback and one recommendation -- using Malwarebytes Anti-Malware -- worked where many others hadn't. January giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet Up for grabs: Two Cisco training courses from Skyline-ATS worth up to $6,990, a Microsoft training course from New Horizons worth up to $2,500, 15 copies each of the hot book titles Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Management and Administration, IPv6 Security and Chained Exploits: Advanced Hacking Attacks. Get all the entry details here. |
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