Superfish Vulnerability Affecting You?

Click the image below to check your system (at LastPass.com) to see if the Superfish vulnerability is affecting your PC.

They also have a lot of great detail on the scope of the problem and how to resolve it if you are affected.

While you’re there, I’d recommend looking at LastPass as a password manager as well.

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Even more info on Superfish from AVG linked below.

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AVG Superfish Info

 

I’ve got “Crypto Paranoia”

Annoying viruses on our computers are something we have gotten used to dealing with, but there is a new and very malicious virus called CryptoLocker that is poised to cause serious problems. CryptoLocker is the latest and most damaging of a type of virus called ransomware, which are Trojan viruses that encrypt your files until you pay a fee (ransom). When the virus has finished encrypting your files, the alert shown below will appear giving you 96 hours (or four days) to pay $300 or lose all your encrypted personal files forever. 

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It should be simple to track down the hackers given that they’re taking a ransom, but it’s not that simple.  Since CryptoLocker demands payment through MoneyPak or Bitcoin, both of which are private, decentralized fund-exchange networks, it’s almost impossible to follow the money.

How does your computer get infected?

 

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