Firefox V.3 Combats Malicious Sites

According to Dallas Computer Repair, Firefox V.3, due out toward the end of the year, will combat malicious sites that attempt to download malware, usually trojans, onto unsuspecting users computers. Sophos reported that 5,000 new malicious sites were created in April but by June the number of new sites jumped to 30,000.

Dallas computer repair has seen an increase in the number of computers coming into the shop for virus removal. One problem is that users are letting their anti-virus expire and after infection are having difficulty removing the malware even with newly installed and updated anti-virus scanners.

Solution: do not go to suspect sites via emails, keep anti-virus definition database updated, do not open emails whose sender is unknown.

Storm Worm- Largest Botnet in Internet's History

Storm Worm has increased its presence on worldwide computers to now number a mind boggling 1.7 million machines. It appears this is the largest botnet in history according to Dallas Computer Repair. Malicious malware writers are using social engineering into enticing unsuspecting users opening emails and then directing them to websites containing the trojan, Storm Worm.

Such a large botnet of computers would be able to take down a small countries internet and it could be used to attack larger institutions and organizations. It appears there has been Denial of Service (DOS) attacks on random IP addresses and that researchers also suspect that it was the Storm Worm that was used to attack the small country of Estonia bringing their internet to a halt.