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Entries for December, 2008

Trojan-SMS for Symbian based smartphones

Present day viruses can infect not only your computer but also for your mobile device. Kaspersky Lab has just reported about detecting of three variants of new trojan application for mobile phones. It is Trojan-SMS.SymbOS.Viver. This spyware sends paid SMS messages to premium number. Thus money is transferred from users account to fraudsters account. This [...]

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Top 5 free antivirus applications

Today we have to pay for almost everything, but there are still some pleasant exclusions. I have to note that all free antivirus applications doesn’t guarantee maximum security and defend your computer only against the most widespread viruses. It is said that more than 200 of new scumware applications appear each day. So the key [...]

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Cookies security

Cookies are text information which is saved on users’ computers on demand of web server. This information is transmitted back during next site visit. Main functions of this technology are
1. session organization for online shops, forums and other interactive systems. In that case cookies contain unique user ID.
2. different user’s parameter keeping.
3. user’s [...]

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