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Why did I get a virus?!

For crying out loud… How did this happen? You’re just surfing along, minding your own business and BAM – some bogus-looking thing pops up claiming you have 300 infected files and you need to pay $70 to get your computer cleaned. Or, like my elderly neighbor over the past weekend, you get a scary full-screen […]

Microsoft releases out-of-band patch for the IE8 (and below) zero-day hole

Microsoft has released a rare out-of-band critical update that appears to address the zero-day exploit announced on January 5th. The software giant previously released a manual “fixit” for this vulnerability but researchers soon found ways around the patch. This update addresses the original problem and is slated for release on January 14th, 2013