Category Archives: Malware

Hiring a fox to guard the hen house

Perion, IncrediMail’s other name, is notorious for bundled software – Smilebox and worst of all Sweet IM, announced today the release of a program to manage add-ons and extensions in browsers. This beats all! It’s like McDonald’s releasing a book, “The Guide to Healthy Eating”,  or  Bernie Madoff writing “How to Invest and Get Rich Legally”. You have… Read More »

Software wrappers or Bundlers are Big Business for some the Web’s biggest download sites

We have been warning you about software bundles (which Emsisoft calls “download wrappers”) for a long time. The following information comes from Emsisoft’s helpful Anti-Malware web site, and we’d like to share it with you, because it give you information you can use to avoid sites which distribute software via bundlers (or “Download wrappers). These are all popular… Read More »

Dianne says – Beware of CNET

Dianne says beware of Downloads.com (CNET) Beware of downloads.com-when I tried to download Musicbee I managed to stop RealPlayer and thought I had stopped Sweet Packs browser helper / Perion Network. I didn’t. I had it in IE10 and Firefox. It hijacked my homepage–yours–and added a updater and a couple of other things. You will find pieces in… Read More »

Thanks for your warm welcome to Emsisoft and Emsisoft Anti-Malware

After a couple of weeks of testing every anti-malware program we could find, we looked at Emsisoft Anti-Malware last. The only word I can used to describe our reaction when we intentionally went to malware sites, intentionally clicked on download links we knew were ads, and intentionally installing software we knew was bundled with malware, and Emsisoft Anti-Malware… Read More »