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How are viruses different from bacteria

Nicolae Sfetcu — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:42:29 +0000

Viruses and bacteria both cause disease, but they’re completely different kinds of microscopic entities. Knowing how they differ helps explain why some infections need antibiotics, others need vaccines, and why you can “kill” bacteria with soap but only block viruses … Read More

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Antimicrobials

Nicolae Sfetcu — Tue, 03 May 2011 03:48:11 +0000

An antimicrobial is a substance that kills or inhibits the growth of microbes such as bacteria (antibacterial activity), fungi (antifungal activity), viruses (antiviral activity), or parasites (anti-parasitic activity). Main classes Antibiotics Antibiotics are generally used to treat bacterial infections. The … Read More

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Spyware – virtual machines and security practices

Nicolae Sfetcu — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:15:22 +0000

Using a virtual machine (such as a pre-built Browser Appliance for VMWare Player) can inhibit infection by spyware, malware, and viruses. Virtual machines provide seperate environments, so if spyware enters the virtual environment, the host computer remains unaffected. One can … Read More

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WinFixer Technical Information

Nicolae Sfetcu — Wed, 06 May 2009 20:35:17 +0000

WinFixer is closely related to Aurora Network’s Nail.exe hijacker/spyware program. In worst case scenarios, it may embed itself in Internet Explorer and become part of the program, thus being nearly impossible to remove. The program is also closely related to … Read More

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Noncommercial spam

Nicolae Sfetcu — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:23:05 +0000

E-mail and other forms of spamming have been used for purposes other than advertisements. Many early Usenet spams were religious or political in nature. Serdar Argic, for instance, spammed Usenet with historical revisionist screeds. A number of evangelists have spammed … Read More

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How WinFixer Infects

Nicolae Sfetcu — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:54:36 +0000

Initial message prior to infection – Disconnect from the internet before closing this! There are several ways in which WinFixer can infect a computer. Users using Internet Explorer are most susceptible, although users of other browsers, such as Firefox and … Read More

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E-mail spam

Nicolae Sfetcu — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:20:04 +0000

E-mail spam is by far the most common form of spamming on the internet. It involves sending identical or nearly identical unsolicited messages to a large number of recipients. Unlike legitimate commercial e-mail, spam is generally sent without the explicit … Read More

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Webmasters, take care, a trojan steals your money!

Nicolae Sfetcu — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:10:58 +0000

BitDefender has detected a new trojan, which hijacks Google text advertisements, replacing them with ads from a different provider. The threat, which is identified by BitDefender as Trojan.Qhost.WU, modifies the infected computers’ Hosts file (a local storage for domain name … Read More

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