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  2. Troubleshooting McAfee - AOL Help

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    Your McAfee software starts monitoring your computer for activity. If no keyboard or mouse activity occurs for 10 minutes, your McAfee software then monitors for CPU use. If CPU use remains under 10% for 10 seconds, the scheduled scan begins. For more details, check the McAfee help page on how scheduled scans work.

  3. List of Ponzi schemes - Wikipedia

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    1860s. Jacob Young, William Abrams, and Nancy Clem ran what author Wendy Gamber argues, in her book The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age, was the first-ever Ponzi scheme. [ 1][ 2] In Munich, Germany, Adele Spitzeder founded the "Spitzedersche Privatbank" in 1869, promising an interest rate of 10 percent per month.

  4. Ransomware - Wikipedia

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    Its payload hid the files on the hard drive and encrypted only their names, and displayed a message claiming that the user's license to use a certain piece of software had expired. The user was asked to pay US$ 189 to "PC Cyborg Corporation" in order to obtain a repair tool even though the decryption key could be extracted from the code of the ...

  5. McAfee - Wikipedia

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    mcafee.com. McAfee Corp. ( / ˈmækəfiː /; MA-kə-fee ), [ 4][ 5] formerly known as McAfee Associates, Inc. from 1987 to 1997 and 2004 to 2014, Network Associates Inc. from 1997 to 2004, and Intel Security Group from 2014 to 2017, is an American global computer security software company headquartered in San Jose, California .

  6. Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal - Wikipedia

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    The two pieces of copy-protection software at issue in the 2005–2007 scandal were included on over 22 million CDs [ 7] marketed by Sony BMG, the record company formed by the 2004 merger of Sony and BMG's recorded music divisions. About two million of those CDs, [ 7] spanning 52 titles, contained First 4 Internet (F4I)'s Extended Copy ...

  7. Counterfeit consumer good - Wikipedia

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    Description. Knockoff Sharpie named "Skerple". A counterfeit consumer good is a good —often of inferior quality—made or sold under another's brand name without the brand owner's authorization. The term counterfeit, fraudulent, and suspect items (CFSI) is also used to describe such goods. [ 2] Pirated goods are reproductions of copyrighted ...

  8. List of con artists - Wikipedia

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    John E.W. Keely (1837–1898): American mechanic and carnival barker who claimed to have discovered a new "force" on the likes of Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla and bilked investors and socialites until the day of his death. [ 10][ 11] David Lamar (1877–1934): American con artist known as "The Wolf of Wall Street".

  9. Avast - Wikipedia

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    Avast Software s.r.o. is a Czech multinational cybersecurity software company headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic, that researches and develops computer security software, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Avast has more than 435 million monthly active users [ 2] and the second largest market share among anti-malware ...