A last fall we published an article showing how a download site can manipulate search engines, capitalize on the hard work of software developers, and roll up software that belongs to someone else in a nasty installer full of PUPs and malware. This site is called Softonic and it’s one of the biggest, most popular download sites, not… Read More »
Check a site for cookies without visiting it While we have an ambivalent attitude toward cookies, many of you seem to be concerned with cookies and no amount of words by us are going to get you to stop worrying about cookies. Therefore in the spirit of capitulation, we offer to those cookiephobics among you a Web site… Read More »
Emsisoft stops trojans most other security software can’t stop We have been recommending Emsisoft for quite a while now. We’ve gotten to know the Emsisoft team pretty well. We knew after we spent months testing antivirus and anti-malware software that we’d found a winner: Emsisoft. Over the months and years now, Emsisoft has never let us, our readers… Read More »
Microsoft issues critical patch for all versions of Windows after flaw found in Hacking Team leak Source: International Business Times “Microsoft has issues a critical security update for all versions of Windows to patch a vulnerability that could give hackers complete access to your PC(Reuters)” Microsoft has taken the unusual step of issuing a critical security update which… Read More »
Bursting your search bubble If you have read our article on Search Bubbles then you probably have some concerns about Google — and other search engines. So we are going to take a few minutes today to show you how you can see all the goods Google has on you — and how to delete all of it including… Read More »
We found the following article by Emsisoft very interesting. We’ve seen evidence that some free antivirus programs like AVG and Avast are edging dangerously close to becoming spyware and PUPs. This is extremely disturbing because the essence of security is the expectation or privacy and trust. We are publishing the following Emsisoft article with the permission of our… Read More »