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How to Remove Malware: Removal Steps for Windows & Mac

eSecurity Planet

Strange Pop-Up Window Messages Unwanted pop-up advertisements or messages that display even while you are not surfing the internet might indicate the presence of adware or other types of malware. Resetting your browsers to default settings removes these changes, ensuring a clean and secure browsing environment.

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How Do You Get Ransomware? 5 Main Sources in 2019

Spinone

It quietly makes its way past your security defenses into the heart of your data and keeps it hostage until you pay a ransom. Let’s take a phishing email that one of our colleagues got some time ago as an example to illustrate the most common signs: 1. Ransomware is a sly, silent, and vicious criminal.

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Security Awareness Training across an SMB Organization

Spinone

The best technology cannot account for the actions and specifically the mistakes that humans can make which may totally undermine the solution that technology provides. This is especially true in the world of security. Security awareness training can help end users to effectively identify a phishing email in various ways.