Do ad blockers really help keep you safer? Our friends at Emsisoft wrote a blog about how ad blockers keep you safer (which you can read here). Most always we agree with Emsisoft’s blogs, but his time we think they got it wrong. The most common problems most people have with their computers are PUPs and Malware. Most PUPs and… Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
LastPass Warns of Data Breach We received the following from LastPass today (16 June 2015). All of you who have LastPass accounts should have received this. We think it would be a good idea to change your LastPass Master Password as soon as possible. While no secure data was stolen, email addresses and not encrypted data might have… Read More »