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XP Antimalware is a rogue (or fake) antispyware program that performs a computer scan and reports that your computer is infected. These security alerts and reports of infections are false.
If you have Perfect Defender 2009 running on your computer then beware. It is a rogue (or fake) antispyware program that performs a computer scan and reports that your computer is infected. In most cases these security alerts and reports of infections are false.
If your computer is infected by a virus or spyware then you might have come across the term 'worm'. In a nutshell a worm is similar to a virus but is technically different.
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If you have Vista Antispyware 2010 running on your computer then beware. It is a rogue (or fake) antispyware program that performs a computer scan and reports that your computer is infected. In most cases these security alerts and reports of infections are false.

Elk Cloner is credited with being the first computer virus to appear "in the wild" -- outside the single computer or lab where it was created. Written in 1982 by Rich Skrenta, it attached itself to the Apple DOS 3.3 operating system and spread by floppy disk.

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When installing Windows Defender on a new XP system you might receive an error code 80004002 after trying to update the program. We have found a solution to this error code by following these steps.

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