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Amazon warns customers of infected digital photo frames

Amazon.com Inc. last week warned customers running Windows XP that a Samsung digital photo frame it sold through earlier this month might have come with malware on the driver installation CD.

| News | Personal tech | Security | 12/29/08 at 3:42 pm |


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Fake Christmas, holiday greetings spread new malware

New malware is spreading via Christmas and holiday greetings, security researchers said today, a tactic reminiscent of those used last season by the notorious Storm Trojan horse.

| News | Security | 12/25/08 at 8:16 pm |


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Fake antivirus peddlers helped by Microsoft, IRS

Scammers are back two weeks after the FTC shut down two major fake antivirus software sellers.

| News | Legal | Security | 12/24/08 at 8:14 am |


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12 ways porn has changed the Web (for good and evil)

The adult entertainment industry has helped shape the Internet as we know it today, even if it has also been at the forefront of a number of less savory innovations. Let's take a look at a not-entirely-dirty dozen.

| Feature | Internet | 12/22/08 at 2:28 pm |


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