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a-okWe are going to be looking for tech and admin positions soon as Three Dog Net is experiencing a growth again. All positions will be part time and dependant on how things progress may develop into transitional full time gigs. If you are interested please contact us through the website.
Our tip today is one actually from our friend Ron at Datamine. If you open up a website and you hear a lot of clicks in the background or you see it trying to open a lot more sites on top of the one you opened, stay away. "If it smells like fish, throw it back."
not sureWell one of the pitfalls of being a service company caught up with us this week and put almost all of us out of commission with the flu or flu like symptoms. We should have some new entries coming in very soon but in the mean time I hope this tides you over.
According to AVG more than 1 in 1000 websites have been infected with some form of drive by malware. Please keep your protection software up to date.
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d'ohWe are having some issues out there with a few explanations of what Malware, viruses, and spyware are so I decided to post the Wikipedia definition versus another publication's definition to allow you to decide for yourself
Malware: Wikipedia.org - Malware, a portmanteau from the words malicious and software, is software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without the owner's informed consent. The expression is a general term used by computer professionals to mean a variety of forms of hostile, intrusive, or annoying software or program code.[1] The term "computer virus" is sometimes used as a catch-all phrase to include all types of malware, including true viruses.
Software is considered malware based on the perceived intent of the creator rather than any particular features. Malware includes computer viruses, worms, trojan horses, most rootkits, spyware, dishonest adware, crimeware and other malicious and unwanted software. In law, malware is sometimes known as a computer contaminant, for instance in the legal codes of several American states, including California and West Virginia.
Malware from bellevuelinux.com -
Malware is any software that is developed for the purpose of doing harm to computers or via computers.
Malware can be classified in several ways, including on the basis of how it is spread, how it is executed and/or what it does. The main types of malware include worms, viruses, trojans, backdoors, spyware, rootkits and spam.
Worms and viruses are computer programs that replicate themselves without human intervention. The difference is that a virus attaches itself to, and becomes part of, another executable (i.e., runnable) program, whereas a worm is self-contained and does not need to be part of another program to replicate itself. Also, while viruses are designed to cause problems on a local system and are passed through boot sectors of disks and through e-mail attachments and other files, worms are designed to thrive in a network environment. Once a worm is executed, it actively seeks other computers, rather than just parts of systems, into which to make copies of itself.
A trojan, or trojan horse, is software that is disguised as a legitimate program in order to entice users to download and install it. In contrast to worms and viruses, trojans are not directly self-replicating. They can be designed to do various harmful things, including corrupt files (often in subtle ways), erase data and install other types of malware.
A backdoor (usually written as a single word) is any hidden method for obtaining remote access to a computer or other system. Backdoors typically work by allowing someone or something with knowledge of them to use special password(s) and/or other actions to bypass the normal authentication (e.g., user name and password) procedure on a remote machine (i.e., a computer located elsewhere on the Internet or other network) to gain access to the all-powerful root (i.e., administrative) account. Backdoors are designed to remain hidden to even careful inspection.
Spyware is software that in installed in a computer for the purpose of covertly gathering information about the computer, its users and/or or other computers on the network to which it is connected. The types of information gathered typically are user names and passwords, web browsing habits, financial data (e.g., bank account and credit card numbers) or trade secrets. A common application of spyware is to provide pop-up advertisements that are targeted at individual users based on their web surfing habits.
A rootkit is software that is secretly inserted into a computer and which allows an intruder to gain access to the root account and thereby be able to control the computer at will. Rootkits frequently include functions to hide the traces of their penetration, such as by deleting log entries. They typically include backdoors so that the intruder can easily gain access again at a later date, for example, in order to attack other systems at specific times.
Spam is unwanted e-mail which is sent out in large volume. Although people receiving a few pieces of spam per day might not think that it is anything to be too concerned about, it is a major problem for several reasons, including the facts that its huge volume (perhaps half or more of all e-mail) places a great load on the entire e-mail system, it often contains other types of malware and much of its content is fraudulent. Organizations typically have to devote considerable resources to attempting to filter out and delete spam while not losing legitimate e-mail, thereby distracting them from their primary tasks.
There are several basic reasons that malware are created. They include a feeling of accomplishment or a desire to show off one's technical skills, the desire to do harm, and a profit motive. The profit motive is probably the most important by far, as there can be huge financial rewards from such activities, mainly for criminal gangs and, to a lesser extent, for the computer experts that they hire to assist with such activities.
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don't askI have noticed that many people have forgotten that most computers have recommended routine maintenance. This is especially true if you plan to keep your computer around for more than 3 years. If you put your computer on the floor I would be willing to bet that you will collect more dust than those placed on top of a desk. Heat is the number one killer of machines. Dirty machines produce and retain a lot of heat.
Let Three Dog Net take care of that for you. With our service agreement you will have us out twice a year to clean your machine.
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brightWell here we are with our first blog entry of the site, with many more to come.
Our tip of the day is this: If you have something that brings up "Windows Security Center" telling you your antivirus software is "inabled" or some other misspelled, poor grammar warning and it sends you to a site other than microsoft.com, you probably have a virus, trojan, or malware and need to get it repaired. These things can be removed with some effort so you don't have to start from scratch but only if you catch it early enough.
Call Three Dog Net to fix it for you. 219-644-7557
We service NW Indiana and the Chicagoland area.
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