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Melissa turns ten, and she’s still dancing!
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology Industry

Category: Deals & Wheels - Contracts

2009-03-24 06:24:18

This Thursday 26 March, marks the 10 year anniversary of the notorious Melissa virus, the very first notable email-aware virus, allegedly named after a lap dancer who the virus creator, David L Smith, supposedly met in Florida.


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Essential Linux tools for the PC technician
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery

Category: The Linux user and switcher blog

2009-03-15 01:52:00
Recently, I blogged that every good IT technician really needs Linux in their toolkit – even if you're strictly a Windows shop. Here are more good reasons why a bootable Linux CD can really save your bacon including indispensable tools you must have.


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Craven BBC avoids naming botnet hosts
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce

Category: Linux Blog

2009-03-13 19:24:48
The BBC has pulled off a stunt of some magnitude in purchasing a botnet made up of 20,000-odd computers and using them to demonstrate the power such a group has to send spam or launch a distributed denial of service attack.
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Conficker getting bigger and meaner but BitDefender’s free disinfection tool is here to help!
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology Industry

Category: Deals & Wheels - Contracts

2009-03-11 21:42:12

BitDefender is offering a free tool for consumers that will disinfect all versions of Downadup – or  the Conficker worm as it’s commonly known – which the security firm says has swept across the globe infecting 15 million computers worldwide.


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Symantec uncovers new Downadup nasty
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology Industry

Category: Deals & Wheels - Contracts

2009-03-09 03:03:28

Symantec has uncovered a new variant of the Downadup threat (a.k.a. Conficker) which it warns is being pushed out to systems that are already infected with Downadup.


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