Today we are officially suspending our recommendation of Malwarebytes as the best utility to remove malware from your computer. While it is still a good tool to remove serious Trojans from your computer, there are better trojan removers, and better rootkit removers. Malwarebytes value, in our opinion was its ability to detect and remove the most commonly found… Read More »
There seems to be a general belief that the term malware, means malicious software, but that is not true. The prefix “mal” is not an abbreviation for malicious, it is a prefix meaning bad. There are a lot of words beginning with this prefix: malcontent, maladjusted, malevolent, malfunction. So when we use the term malware we mean, literally… Read More »
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 slippery slope. Malwarebytes… Read More »
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 you cannot depend… Read More »
“According to a company news release, Google just made the horrible mistake of renewing their contract with these evildoers. I just spent a couple of hours removing one of their so-called products, “SweetPacks”, from a friend’s computer. Prior to this, the friend had suffered loss of time and work amounting to days over a period of MONTHS, due… Read More »
A “hacker” stole millions of names and email addresses –were you a victim too? Information is the new gold. Information about you is being collected and collated and, unfortunately, shared with companies and organizations without your knowledge, permission, or consent. The companies who collect this information are companies you do business with and trust. Companies like Best Buy,… Read More »