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FixMeStick Review – USB Bootable Anti-Virus

29th November 201628th November 2016 by James Smythe

If you are a bit of a geek you will have had a family member/friend/acquaintance as you to fix their PC in the past; I guarantee it. In my experience, most of the time it is due to a virus/malware, and sometimes even ransomware. The cause is nearly always questionable downloads and randomly clicking on … Read more

Don’t need an Anti Virus on your Mac? iWork ’09 Trojan infects at least 20,000

28th January 2009 by James Smythe

Ok so you could argue they deserve it but it is believed that users downloading a pirated version of iWork ’09 have also been infected with a Trojan Horse called OSX.Trojan.iServices.A. The Trojan installs itself in the computer’s startup as root, and once in place it can connect to a remote server and broadcast its … Read more