It's called Cerber Ransomware and it is fleecing computer users as it Talks! New Cerber ransomware does the same as other ransomware threats, in that it encrypts all of your file,s then demands a ransom payment. However, it does do something new. After your files are encrypted, it drops three files...
AVG selling your information?
AVG will now start selling your information starting October 15, 2015 In September 2015, AVG released their new privacy policy which, effective October 15, 2015, makes clear that AVG will collect "non-personal data" such as “Browsing and search history, including meta data.” AVG claims it collects this data “to make money from...
Back Up Before It Is All Gone – New Ransomware Threat
RANSOMWARE THREAT IS BACK! After an absence of 2 months, the CryptoWall ransomware threat is back! CryptoWall 3.0 started appearing on Monday 1-12-15 and is a sophisticated ransomware threat program that encrypts the victims' files making them unusable and non-recoverable. Users are instructed to pay the equivalent of US$500 in...
AVG Free Antivirus – How to reactivate it back to the Free Version.
Where did my AVG Free Antivirus product go? Did you accidentally get switched over to the paid version of AVG and want to get back to the FREE version? Mad Dog Computer can help with that. One thing you should be aware of with the AVG Free Antivirus is that AVG...
Malvertisement Virus Attacks from Yahoo Infects European Users
For approximately four days from at least December 31, 2013 to January 3, 2014 and possibly for a longer period of time, Yahoo users in Europe were served advertisements on the Yahoo site that were infected with malware. This malware redirected users to a site that was hosing the exploit...
Malware Protection Recommendations
WE RECOMMEND THE FOLLOWING AS A MINIMUM to keep Malware (MALicious softWARE) from getting on your computer: When ADOBE tells you there is an update to their software, put it in immediately (usually takes less than 5 minutes.) When JAVA tells you there is an update to their software, put it...
Anti-Malware Instructions for the Mad Dog Protective Suite
Anti-Malware Instructions for clients to help protect their computers. Due to AVG's newly disclosed sales of information gathered from your computer, effective October 2015, we are recommending the Kaspersky Internet Security product instead of AVG Free and will be upgrading all of our clients who subscribe to one of our...
Recent McAfee Update Cripples Computers
McAfee Update Cripples many users needlessly! McAfee Inc. apologized late Thursday, April 23, 2010 for crippling thousands of customers' computers with a flawed update the day before. To many of the computer users who run McAfee, the apology was too little, too late. Computers running Windows XP Service Pack 3...