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Help! I have a Virus!

Sean Daniel

I wanted to write something up on how you can self heal your Windows 8 PC (although most of this also works for Windows 7), or at least get you started in the right direction. Let’s quickly talk about what a “virus” is: A virus is actually software that is harmful to you or others running on your computer.

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Does Next-Generation Anti-Virus Solve the Fatal Flaws of Anti-Virus?

CTOvision

Many of us in the community, myself included, have long said that anti-virus is dead and even a senior VP at Symantec has now admitted such. browsers, Office applications, and Windows utilities) to achieve their objectives. The chorus of voices declaring the end of anti-virus has reached a deafening pitch.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Healthcare

ForAllSecure

I suppose such things happen, but what I remember was her telling her surprise when the system booted up and the Windows 95 splash screen came up … wait, what? Ahmadi: Billy provided me the images from various pieces of medical device software and in them we found literally over 1000 known vulnerabilities. Then nothing.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Healthcare

ForAllSecure

I suppose such things happen, but what I remember was her telling her surprise when the system booted up and the Windows 95 splash screen came up … wait, what? Ahmadi: Billy provided me the images from various pieces of medical device software and in them we found literally over 1000 known vulnerabilities. Then nothing.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

Instead of just targeting zero days in the Windows operating system- which it did -- it then infected Siemens Step7 systems, causing the fast-spinning centrifuges to tear themselves apart. Here’s Liam O'Murchu of Symantec on 60 Minutes : Wallace/ O'Murchu: i s one was a very large operation. How to Buy that software.

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The Hacker Mind: Follow The Rabbit

ForAllSecure

And I remember calling Symantec and reporting a serious bug in an early version of their password manager. Their Operating System type was set to windows. This was strange since they were obviously running linux commands in a linux terminal so why is it set to windows? Vamosi: That’s how I beta test things.

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Top 10 Most-Destructive Computer Viruses

Galido

While previous malware programs may have caused secondary physical problems, Stuxnet was unique in that it targeted software that controls industrial systems. Then like an old-fashioned chain letter gone nuclear, the virus e-mailed itself to the first 50 contacts in the user’s Windows address book.

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