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Windows 7 and IE 8 or IE 9 “Do you want to display non secure items”

Posted on May 25, 2011 by The Weekly Geek

In Windows 7 and Vista, if you use Internet Explorer 8 or 9, it is not uncommon to visit a web page, especially one that has “secure” info such as a bank or shopping site, and get a pop up in the middle of your screen stating “This page contains both secure and non secure items. Do you want to display the non secure items” if you click “No” then part of the page / web site will not display correctly. Continue reading →

LoJack computer tracing and security software

Posted on May 11, 2011 by The Weekly Geek

Recently one of our customers had a break in and all the laptops stolen, about 10 days later, the crooks returned and did the same thing. Within two weeks the local news had a story about the number of break-ins in this little town. Continue reading →

Mass SQL Injection leads to more Fake AV scares

Posted on May 2, 2011 by The Weekly Geek

Here we go again, the Fake AV criminals have come up with a new attack, the SonicWALL research team has received reports of a mass SQL injection infecting millions of websites. It is likely that the back-end databases of these websites were compromised leading to this SQL injection.

Malicious script codes were inserted and being served in webpages which when triggered redirects to malicious links that serves FakeAV malware. Continue reading →