Email and website phishing has become much more convincing as of late. As you can see here, one of my clients actually received an award via an email that had their name on the image of the award which was part of the email message! This article will contain examples of phishing messages. It is [...]

What is DNS? Semantically, DNS is an acronym for Domain Name Service. It is a service that runs on computers connected to a network. The computers that perform the Domain Name Service are known as Domain Name Service Servers. This is (thankfully) shortened to DNS Servers. So what is a Domain Name? Domain names are [...]

I just received a little snippet of info from my old alma mater about a product called “FamilyShield” by the well known DNS supplier OpenDNS. On many occasions, we receive questions from people about family safety on the web. They generally take the form of one of the following: How can I stop my children [...]

So what does all that mean? Well, when dealing with Windows viruses and spyware, you may run across the dialog box pictured on the right. We just recently had this pop up after using one of our spyware removal tools to get rid of the all-too-common “XP Antivirus” spyware from one of our clients machine. [...]