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ZeroAccess Botnet

ZeroAccess is a very large botnet, infecting millions of computers globally. According to researchers at Sophos Labs, ZeroAccess has been installed on computers over nine million times with the current number of infected PC’s topping out at over 1 million. That is a staggering number….

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Latest malware trends

Top 10 threats on the Internet № Name % of all attacks Change in ranking 1 Malicious URL 91.26% 0 2 Trojan.Script.Iframer 5.81% 0 3 Trojan.Script.Generic 2.15% 0 4 Trojan-Downloader.Script.Generic 0.95% 2 5 Trojan.Win32.Generic 0.47% -2 6 Trojan-Downloader.JS.Agent.gmr 0.43% new 7 Trojan-Spy.JS.Agent.c 0.37% -2 8…

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World War III Facebook Scam

If you’ve recently been alerted the sudden outbreak of WWIII, don’t worry. It’s not true. But, you probably now have a computer virus. A fake news page saying “US attacks Iran and Saudi Arabia, the beginning of World War 3″ is the latest virus scam…

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