The latest edition in rogue antispyware programs, MS AntiVirus - looks and feels like a regular antispyware application, but in fact - deadly as hell.

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tar -cvzpf filename.tar.gz /path/to/folder

If you’ve ever downloaded video files from BitTorrent before, you would be well aware that trying to preview them when the download hasn’t finished can be quiet annoying, if not impossible. However, there are a few different methods you can try;
If you’re downloading an entire season, but the complete series hasn’t finished yet (legal downloads [...]

If you’ve been experiencing a pop up from Trend stating something about a “possible HIFRM”, then no fear - we can tell you how to get rid of this annoyance!
1) Click the Start menu and select Control Panel
2) Double click Internet Options
3) Under the General tab click the Delete files button, under the Temporary [...]

If you’ve managed to attract the known trojan VirtuMonde - then you’re in trouble. This nasty trojan is known to act as a rogue antispyware program, showing advertisments and popups on your machine. Not only will it make your machine run slow, but also is known to perform denial of service attacks on websites of [...]

Weird popups? Porn? Messages advising you to purchase products? Internet Explorer homepage keep changing? Did you wallpaper disappear? System running slow?
All of the above are symptoms of spyware, which may have been introduced to your machine via various methods - which include activeX downloads and software you installed on your PC (such as Kazaa and [...]

The W32/Spar virus is a nasty little thing that often is found imbedded in files you may have downloaded through P2P programs such as Kazaa and Limewire.
You may find an annoying popup which states;
Patch applied succesfully! If your software is still trial maybe you need to install it before patch it.
To remove this virus, [...]

If you’ve been unlucky to install AntiMalware Guard, then you might have some difficulty in removing it. AntiMalware Guard poses as a fake anti-spamware program and is designed to show FALSE spyware results. To kill and remove AntiMalware, you are going to do a little digging - so lets get started.

A friend of mine traveling in Italy recently asked me how they could clear the browsing history from the computer they were using in an Internet Cafe.
The best way to erase your browsing history is to use Firefox and the “Clear Private Data” tool that ships with it (ctrl + shift + delete). However if [...]

Windows XP firewall not cutting it? Then its time to move on to something more powerful. The thing about firewalls these days is that your most likely already covered by your workplace firewall, otherwise you know that little router/modem that you have at home? That’s already blocking inbound requests for you.
However there are times when [...]

Every network administrator at some stage in their career will come into trouble with the influx of spam during their career because, quite simply, spammers are smart. If you did a Google search for “Linux Anti-Spam”, you’ll be bombarded with tutorials using the infamous, free, SpamAssassin software. However if spamassassin isn’t quite cutting it, you [...]