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POPSSponsored search results lead to malware If you're not sure, verify the URL. Microsoft and Google have large payrolls, but the search giants don't employ literal armies to review ad submissions. If you're at all suspicious of an ad's legitimacy, check the URL via a service such as hpHosts, which tracks domain names that researchers have reported as malicious. Help vendors by reporting malicious advertisers. To report bogus ads on Google, e-mail security at google.com. This is likely to be more effective than reporting the site via the search giant's online form. If you discover malware purveyors advertising in Bing's results, e-mail secure at microsoft.com. Yahoo, however, offers only a Security Phishing Report Form.
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POPSShortened URLs are convenient – and trackable More: For all the convenience of short URLs, some Internet security experts worry that they could be used to camouflage spam and phishing attacks and redirect people to malicious Web sites. “People have no way to know where they’re going,” said Patrik Runald, chief security advisor at F-Secure Security Labs, a maker of security software. “These services are great and they serve a purpose, but at the same time, there is a darker side.” And if a shortening site shuts down, any links funneled through it would be lost forever, Mr. Runald said.
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POPSCareful before you click that URL. As this great post at PCMags security section says, please be careful when choosing to click a link to visit a site. If youve never heard of the product, do a lil research first. Visit a review site or use a search engine to check it out.
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POPSWhen PDFs Attack: Symantec Alert Subsequent testing has shown that systems running Internet Explorer 6 and Adobe Reader 7 on Windows XP SP1, and systems with Internet Explorer 6 and Adobe Reader 4 on Windows XP SP2 are also vulnerable to the attack.
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POPSHelp! del.icio.us gives dreaded 999 error code Anyone know what this could mean? I use the del.icio.us toolbar on FF2 and haven't had any problems until this morning. Now every attempt to reach del.icio.us gives me this page. I recently installed a new firewall (Comodo). Also, I notice via the del.icio.us module on my Netvibes page that a bunch of random pages that I visited, but didn't save, seem to have been saved to my del.icio.us account. Could some bizarre kind of malware have infected my del.icio.us toolbar or something?
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