Author Archive
When a Bad-Ass Fan Ain’t Enough
By James Duldulao at 18 April, 2012, 8:41 am
For your CPU that is, for however high-tech or expensive a CPU cooling fan is dust kills all that dough you put into buying it. That’s a simple truth many forget to remember and they end up with burnt up CPU’s, literally. CPU’s tend to operate at a high temperature and can handle a maximum of around the boiling point of water or 100 Degrees Centigrade. More than that and components start to fry and eventually fail. Though you wouldn’t see burnt CPU’s everyday, a component running hotter than usual can lead to mysterious pc crashes and problems such as intermittent errors that you could not diagnose. Take a peek inside of your casing and check from time to time to ensure you have a clean fan and cooling fins. Blow using dusters to clean them out(after you open the case and take it outside of course), refraining from using brushes that everybody uses for it can cause static damage.
(No Ratings Yet)
Loading ...Fake Resume Spam Leads to Malware Infection
By James Duldulao at 30 June, 2010, 12:48 pm
We just noticed a new wave of fake resume spam that redirects users to a malicious site. We see the resume pages were uploaded to innocent sites in top-level domains of various countries, perhaps in an attempt to internationalize the spam campaign.
The pages contain a small piece of obfuscated JavaScript code that translates into a [...]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...‘March Madness’ Malware Spreading via Search Results
By James Duldulao at 17 March, 2010, 7:55 pm
This is the time of year when basketball fans go online to fill out their bracket selections. While fans are playing with their brackets, hackers are also playing their own game of “spamdexing”-–manipulating search results to promote, in this case, malware-infected sites.
At the time of this posting, top search results for terms such as ncaa [...]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...
