From the Microsoft Security Website:
Online criminals can use a virus to take control of large numbers of computers at a time, and turn them into “zombies” that can work together as a powerful “botnet” to perform malicious tasks.
Botnets, which can include as many as 100,000 individual “zombie” computers, can distribute spam e-mail, spread viruses, and […]
Taken from the Trend Micros Weekly Virus Report - March 24, 2006.
Broadly defined, spyware is any software program that surreptitiously monitors and gathers user information. What was once written and installed only by malicious authors seeking to steal users’ personal information, adware has emerged as a new and more prominent form of spyware. A slightly […]
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Did you know if you are running Pastel and your Pastel Cover is paid up then you qualify for free telephonic […]
Well April Fool’s Day came and went without too much incident. I think this was something to do with it being a Sunday rather than a workday and who want’s to waste a perfectly good weekend setting up elaborate hoaxes? Google.
Google chose yesterday to announce the TiSP. Free broadband via your toilet. The user drops […]
The department of trade and industry’s broad-based BEE codes of good practice, approved by cabinet in December, were gazetted last month (February 2007).
There is good news for SMEs with them falling into one of two categories being either an Exempt Micro Enterprise (EME) or a Qualifying Small Enterprise (QSE). An EME is an enterprise whose […]