Tag: malware
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Friends Don’t Let Friends Use the Edge Web Browser (or Bing for Search)
This past week at school, I accidentally clicked a bad link while setting up a fresh installation of Windows10. This dramatically highlighted how easy it is for someone today to accidentally install malware or adware on a computer, and why friends shouldn’t let friends use the Edge Web Browser or the Bing search engine by Microsoft.…
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Book Review: Spam Nation by Brian Krebs
“Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime-from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door” by Brian Krebs (@briankrebs) is an eye opening dive into the world of Internet spam, pharmaceutical drugs sold online, cyberattacks, malware, the dark web, and corruption within the Russian justice system. It should be required reading (or listening) for anyone working…
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Remove Genieo Malware from a Mac
Back in October of 2013 I wrote the post, “Beware of Genieo Adware on Apple Computers.” This was the first time someone in our family accidentally installed an adware/malware program on one of our Mac laptops. Today at school, one of our staff members was searching for free Christmas card templates, and ended up installing Genieo…
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Ransomware, Backups & Google Drive
I’ve started a new weekly “technology tip” video series as our school’s director of technology. This week’s video is titled, “Ransomware, Backups & Google Drive,” and was prompted by this week’s News9 article, “Virus Hits Moore Public Schools Computer Systems.” This incident involved CryptoLocker, which is a very bad type of malware known as “ransomware.” In this narrated slideshow I…