A recent development regarding the Conficker virus has been detected, where it is now directing infected machines to download new, harmful files, thus activating the botnet. Here’s how this new behavior works:
Conficker sends out email spam without the PC owner’s knowledge. In addition, Conficker uses pop-ups to warn of PC infection and offers fake antivirus software, called 'SpywareProtect2009' at a price of $49.95. If purchased, credit card information is stolen and the virus downloads even more malicious software.
You can protect yourself from Conficker with ZoneAlarm Security Suite.It includes antivirus, anti-spyware and firewall protection for your PC.
If you encounter a pop-up like this, do not click on the pop-up at all - not even to close the box. To remove the pop-up without infection, open your Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Delete), and end the task from your Browser (Explorer, Firefox, etc.). You should take additional precautions to ensure you are not already infected and have adequate protection:
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
8 Custom built pc's
Man! We got a big order a week or so ago from a local business. 8 Complete custom builds.
I specked up everything, ordered the parts and everything was here in just a couple days. We have all of them built already, and the operating systems installed on all but 2 now. We will be taking them to the business and setting up on the domain, printers, network shares, software, etc hopefully next week.
I specked up everything, ordered the parts and everything was here in just a couple days. We have all of them built already, and the operating systems installed on all but 2 now. We will be taking them to the business and setting up on the domain, printers, network shares, software, etc hopefully next week.
Monday, May 4, 2009
Weird DVD Drive
8 Custom built computers; all identical parts.
1 DVD drive will not boot when it's in the case. It will boot when taken out of the case and laid on the counter. Tried another dvd drive that is working, and it did the exact same thing.....works fine outside of the case, but will not work inside the case! There is not normally anything that could cause a grounding issue on the computer case or the case of the DVD drive. It would not be a bad data cable because it works laying outside the case (using the same cables)... it would not be motherboard because it works outside the case.... what could it be?
It ended up that we tried another molex to sata adapter for the power cable, and it worked! Either both of the SATA power cables coming straight off the power supply are defective, or we have a defective power supply. The power supply tests good, and both of the SATA connectors on the powersupply test good on a tester.......
1 DVD drive will not boot when it's in the case. It will boot when taken out of the case and laid on the counter. Tried another dvd drive that is working, and it did the exact same thing.....works fine outside of the case, but will not work inside the case! There is not normally anything that could cause a grounding issue on the computer case or the case of the DVD drive. It would not be a bad data cable because it works laying outside the case (using the same cables)... it would not be motherboard because it works outside the case.... what could it be?
It ended up that we tried another molex to sata adapter for the power cable, and it worked! Either both of the SATA power cables coming straight off the power supply are defective, or we have a defective power supply. The power supply tests good, and both of the SATA connectors on the powersupply test good on a tester.......
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