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Computer Virus, Worm, Trojan, Spyware and Vulnerability Alerts
Here are the top 10 current Trojan Horse and malware threats and CVE's (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures).
You can read about emerging threats, updates to anti-spyware programs and other computer security issues on my security Blog.
While Symantec is famous for its Norton security programs, I long ago chose to switch to the lighter weight, cloud based malware detection systems used by Trend Micro Internet Security programs, to prevent my computers from becoming infected in the first place. If you think your computer may already be infected, you can use the free malware scanning and removal tools at Trendmicro.com. If they do find and remove malware, consider investing in the paid product that will protect your devices in real time.
Here is a software solution to email security threats:
Many of the current computer malware and ransomeware threats arrive as email attachments.
If you don't have an anti-malware program installed that scans incoming email,
your computer is only one click away from a possibly expensive compromise. Desktop POP3 and IMAP email clients (programs) are as much in harm's way as are browser-based email clients.
In this case you would benefit from a separate desktop email spam and malware screening program, like MailWasher Pro.
MailWasher Pro is an email screening program that automatically detects spam and other email-borne threats by scanning the headers, subject and body text, consulting online databases of known spam, checking against a blacklist the user has created and analyzing incoming raw source code with user-configurable filters, which include positive and negative conditions and Regular Expressions filters.
I use Mailwasher Pro to screen all incoming email, using all of it's built-in tools. I personally write and publish spam, scam, exploit and malware detection filters that plug into MailWasher Pro.
For more complete details about how Mailwasher Pro works visit my MailWasher Pro web page.