Security Archives - SCD Information Technology We fix IT and you benefit... Tue, 27 Jul 2021 17:38:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 WordPress 5.8 Update Could Not Be Verified http://blog.scdit.com/wordpress-5-8-update-fix/ http://blog.scdit.com/wordpress-5-8-update-fix/#respond Thu, 22 Jul 2021 16:11:39 +0000 http://blog.scdit.com/?p=14705 While working on a WordPress site we were prompted to update to 5.8, but the manually pushing the button to update keep failing. The process would start, but would run into errors and stop. We tried just manually moving the directories “wp-admin” and “wp-includes” from a downloaded zip of the latest version, but this didn’t […]

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]]> http://blog.scdit.com/wordpress-5-8-update-fix/feed/ 0 Outlook Contacting:\\googleads.g.doubleclick http://blog.scdit.com/outlook-contactinggoogleads-g-doubleclick/ http://blog.scdit.com/outlook-contactinggoogleads-g-doubleclick/#respond Wed, 06 Feb 2019 16:19:56 +0000 http://blog.scdeval.com/?p=632 Had a customer with an issue of Outlook “Not Responding“, and a dialog box would popup saying: Microsoft Outlook Contacting: \\googleads.g.doubleclick.net\pagead\viewthroughconversation\877065211”. Running Outlook in safe mode would stop this from happening. Go to run and type in “outlook /safe” and hit enter. The following article lead us to possible Malware. There were no obvious browser […]

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]]> http://blog.scdit.com/outlook-contactinggoogleads-g-doubleclick/feed/ 0 Outlook a program is trying to access e-mail address http://blog.scdit.com/outlook-a-program-is-trying-to-access-e-mail-address/ http://blog.scdit.com/outlook-a-program-is-trying-to-access-e-mail-address/#respond Thu, 06 Dec 2018 18:24:50 +0000 http://blog.scdeval.com/?p=563 We had a customer who’s Outlook keep popping up the following dialog box. Here is the link we used to understand the issue. https://support.office.com/en-us/article/i-get-warnings-about-a-program-accessing-email-address-information-or-sending-email-on-my-behalf-86cc5ece-379e-45e3-b8eb-3fefba09946b This location uses Vipre Antivirus. We logged onto their server and went into the Vipre console. The customer’s machine appeared up-to-date with the client; however, the definitions were slightly behind. Not […]

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]]> http://blog.scdit.com/outlook-a-program-is-trying-to-access-e-mail-address/feed/ 0 Browser Not Going To Site – Search Encrypt http://blog.scdit.com/browser-not-going-to-site-search-encrypt/ http://blog.scdit.com/browser-not-going-to-site-search-encrypt/#respond Thu, 01 Nov 2018 20:53:33 +0000 http://blog.scdeval.com/?p=461 We got a call from a customer who couldn’t get to a website she uses everyday. The issue was in Chrome. I went to the extensions to see if anything strange was installed. I saw “Search Encrypt“. A quick search lead me to an article at Malwarebytes. https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/226686-removal-instructions-for-search-encrypt/ This article was on removing Search Encrypt […]

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]]> http://blog.scdit.com/browser-not-going-to-site-search-encrypt/feed/ 0 What Does GDPR Mean http://blog.scdit.com/what-does-gdpr-mean/ http://blog.scdit.com/what-does-gdpr-mean/#respond Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:22:35 +0000 http://blog.scdeval.com/?p=367 The European Union has enacted the General Data Protection Regulation. It’s goal is to streamline the different privacy laws throughout the individual EU States. The benefits for the in the individuals or “data subjects” control over their personal data. “Personal data is any information relating to an individual, whether it relates to his or her […]

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]]> http://blog.scdit.com/what-does-gdpr-mean/feed/ 0 Phishing Attempts From Cheapfixerproperties.com http://blog.scdit.com/phishing-attempts-from-cheapfixerproperties-com/ http://blog.scdit.com/phishing-attempts-from-cheapfixerproperties-com/#respond Fri, 27 Jul 2018 13:50:55 +0000 http://blog.scdeval.com/?p=354 We had a customer complaining about emails stuck in the spam filter. They were getting an email with the subject line “(3) Incoming messages failed to sync”. In the email was a button to “Restore Messages”; however, when we hovered over the link the web address was for “https://cheapfixerproperties.com/…”. We told the customer this was […]

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]]> http://blog.scdit.com/phishing-attempts-from-cheapfixerproperties-com/feed/ 0 Email Scam – I do know, XXXXXXXX, is your password. http://blog.scdit.com/email-scam-i-do-know-xxxxxxxx-is-your-password/ http://blog.scdit.com/email-scam-i-do-know-xxxxxxxx-is-your-password/#respond Thu, 12 Jul 2018 17:43:05 +0000 http://blog.scdeval.com/?p=323 We received an email from a old customer who got an email with the following message. “I do know, xxxxxxx, is your password. You don’t know me and you are probably wondering why you are getting this e-mail, correct? actually, I actually installed a malware on the adult vids (sexually graphic) site and do you […]

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]]> http://blog.scdit.com/email-scam-i-do-know-xxxxxxxx-is-your-password/feed/ 0 VIPRE – A problem has occurred in VIPRE Threat Scanner http://blog.scdit.com/vipre-a-problem-has-occurred-in-vipre-threat-scanner/ http://blog.scdit.com/vipre-a-problem-has-occurred-in-vipre-threat-scanner/#respond Tue, 27 Feb 2018 19:07:07 +0000 http://blog.scdeval.com/?p=222 We had a customer who was having VIPRE pop ups. Here is a screenshot of what they were getting. I contacted VIPRE and they knew right a way how to fix it. They said it was a bad definition that came down in early February. The fix is to download a small file that will […]

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]]> http://blog.scdit.com/vipre-a-problem-has-occurred-in-vipre-threat-scanner/feed/ 0 Windows Security Outlook Connecting To Prompt Dialog Box http://blog.scdit.com/windows-security-outlook-connecting-to-prompt-dialog-box/ http://blog.scdit.com/windows-security-outlook-connecting-to-prompt-dialog-box/#respond Tue, 22 Aug 2017 14:13:07 +0000 http://blog.scdeval.com/?p=125 Had a user getting prompted by Outlook to enter credentials for another email account. There were no additional accounts attached to her outlook. I ended up using Microsoft’s Credential Manager and deleting out all the entries. This time when Outlook opened it was asking to log into a different account that the user once had […]

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]]> http://blog.scdit.com/windows-security-outlook-connecting-to-prompt-dialog-box/feed/ 0 Domain Expiration SEO Registration Is Set To Expire – Scam http://blog.scdit.com/seo-registration-is-set-to-expire-scam/ http://blog.scdit.com/seo-registration-is-set-to-expire-scam/#respond Thu, 01 Jun 2017 13:15:12 +0000 http://blog.scdeval.com/?p=52 We have recently received a couple of emails asking us to re-register our SEO ( Search Engine Optimization ). There is a link to pay. This is obviously a scam. The SEO are carefully crafted words in the webpage. You can pay someone to craft the SEO and put it in the page, but you […]

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