Windows 8 is very fragile when it comes to getting malware, it is very easy to get a malicious program on it that can prevent it from running properly. And Windows 10 has compatibility issues with older applications and games. So there is not much choice when it comes to running a Windows operating system … Read more
This is a Windows 10 computer with a virus infestation, this person was asking if this was a serious problem or not. I mean really? Of course it is. As long as I had Windows 10 installed, I shouldn’t have had anything at all to worry about. The problem is that I was getting messages … Read more
The Petya malware is getting worse, there is a new version of this malware that has no killswitch like the previous version had. There was a source screenshot posted on Twitter that showed a possible killswitch, but this new variant does not have this at all. But simple Common Sense 2017™ will keep you safe. … Read more
Petya cyber attack threatening many Windows machines Petya cyber attack screen on Windows. This is a new version of the Wannacry malware that is targeting insecure Windows machines. Apparently, there was a system that pushed updates to many Windows machines, and the malware was introduced into the updates and therefore spread like wildfire. This is … Read more
I have recently downloaded an executable, this is a piece of Linux malware. I run a query with strings on this file and I find out that this file makes changes to various utility commands on a Linux system such as netstat, ps, top and /bin/sh. This would be all the hallmarks of a rootkit … Read more
Why is the infrastructure of countries like Iran under attack, they have been infected with a computer virus that supposedly originated from Israel. This is part of the cyber-terrorism spectre that is looming over the Internet. Firstly they had the Stuxnet virus, that was programmed to attack centrifuges for refining uranium and now this new … Read more
The Linux kernel 3.4-rc2 seems to have given Debian quite a speed boost, the performance of my machine, and the boot time seems to have been improved over the 3.3 kernel I was running before. This is a good sign, the Linux kernel needs more speed and performance to make it even more appealing on … Read more
The Windows installation I have is still infected with Malware even after I cleaned it with MSE and updated all the virus definitions. This is not a good thing to have to deal with, but Linux can do things faster and with more security and stability than Windows 7 can manage. This is a joke, … Read more
This output below is the result of running strings(1) on my pagefile.sys file left over from running Windows 7. You can see there is a bit of activity going on behind the scenes of Windows that I was not aware of. I thought my system had no bugs in it at all, but I loaded … Read more
According to a Source in the Department of Homeland Security, many hardware components imported into the United States are infected with malware and spyware and pose a great risk to the health of any Windows computer they are plugged into. This is reported to have been carried out by unknown foreign powers, putting the computing … Read more
Hello there. I have noticed that some users are having trouble recovering their username and password, as I was checking my info[AT]securitronlinux.com E-Mail account and I noticed that there were a lot of messages that pertained to that problem. I have tried to fix this, so if you try again it might work now. If … Read more
In the coming days, Apple will deliver a Mac OS X software update that will automatically find and remove Mac Defender malware and its known variants. The update will also help protect users by providing an explicit warning if they download this Malware. So the Apple OS is vulnerable to malware after all. They thought … Read more