We’ve recently become aware that Malwarebytes no longer detects at least two of the most ubiquitous malware products (politely known to us as PUPs — Potentially Unwanted Programs), those two being Ask Toolbar and Conduit.
We’re not saying there’s anything wrong with Malwarebytes, we still recommend it. We’re just concerned that this may become a [...]
You can’t depend on ANY security software to protect you
We are seeing a disturbing trend. We’ll clean the malware from a computer and a few months later, the same person is back with more malware. And many of them will ask us where they got it. They’ll also tell us they have X, Y, and Z security programs installed.
We cannot stress enough that [...]
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Malware is ubiquitous!
In our experience with customers, we have found that over 95% of computers are infected with malware. Malware toolbars like Ask, Conduit, Scopes, and many others are not detected by antimalware, yet when these [...]
IAC toolbars — exposed again
You may not know the name IAC, but we’re betting you recognize the names Ask.com, FunWebProducts, Ask Toolbar, and SmileyCentral. They’re all products of Interactive Corporation which is IAC. And we’ve long been fighting against this corporate parasite because IAC makes a lot of money by deceiving and tricking computer users, just like you.
They [...]
Maryanne wants to know about Finally Fast
Thank you for everything you do for us. My internet provider, Verizon, is promoting “Finally Fast”. Please give me your opinion of this program. Thanks, Maryanne.
Our answer
Thank you, Maryanne. First we want to say we could find nowhere on Verizon’s site where they are [...]
It’s not new; it’s been around since 2010. But the SMART HDD Rogue is all over the Web right now. As we’ve said many times in the past couple of years — you’re much more likely to encounter a Rogue than you ever are to encounter a virus or Trojan. Why? Because Rogues are drive-bys [...]
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