Category Archives: Malware

Emsisoft Receives Another Award

Emsisoft Receives Another Award A few years back, after Malwarebytes and Windows Security Essentials both let users down ( see our articles on Malwarebytes here and here ) we began testing other antimalware and antivirus solutions. After several weeks of intense testing, we found Emsisoft protected computers better than any other security product we tested. But even thought we… Read More »

The Truth About Windows Defender

The Truth About Windows Defender Microsoft Windows Defender continues its attempts to gain a foothold in the world of PC security, but in our world it’s going to have a really hard time doing that. Let’s just say … “Fool me once, shame on me; fool me twice, shame on you.” Actually, this would be the third time… Read More »

Announcing our brand new 2017 Cloudeight InfoAve Premium Volume 14 E-book

Announcing our brand new 2017 Cloudeight InfoAve Premium Volume 14 E-book We’re excited to announce that our new 2017 Cloudeight InfoAve Premium Volume 14 E-Book is available now! Our Cloudeight InfoAve Premium E-book Volume 14 includes all the content from every issue of Cloudeight InfoAve Premium from the past year! Our Cloudeight InfoAve Volume 14 E-book contains: Hundreds… Read More »

Grab a Pickaxe! Let’s Go Mining for Digital Currency

Grab a Pickaxe! Let’s Go Mining for Digital Currency If you don’t know what cryptocurrency is, we’re going to give you some simple background information so that you can understand what’s about to transform the world of adware and maybe even alter the way malware works The most well-known cryptocurrency is Bitcoin. Bitcoin became popular because it could… Read More »

Tech Support Scams, Microsoft Support Scams: Scams Scams Everywhere!

Tech Support Scams, Microsoft Support Scams: Scams Scams Everywhere! We published this article in May 2017 – focusing then on the Microsoft support scams going around at the time. This is a big update to that post and we’ve included even more screen shots of Microsoft tech support scams and other tech support scams – the ones you… Read More »