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Monday, March 24, 2014

New Version MBAM 2.0 released!!

Stronger, smarter & definitely better looking Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 2.0 is finally here! And it's 2.0wesome #SSBL http://mwb.to/2dot0

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Zombie botnets: Why some crime networks refuse to die

When cyber criminals are arrested it usually means the end of their profiting from spam, viruses and stolen data. Once down, they stay down.

But some parts of the cyber crime world are much harder to stamp out. Like zombies they do not seem to know they are supposed to be dead, and keep coming back again and again to cause even more trouble.

@ BBC News

Monday, January 20, 2014

Worst Passwords of 2013

Sadly enough, another year has come and gone with what ‘feels’ like little progress made on getting people to choose better passwords. Password management software maker SplashData has compiled a list of the worst 25 passwords of 2013, a ‘top offenders’ list that contains some old favorites along with some new entries as choices people should not be making.

From How-To Geek

Browser extensions are spying on you

The internet exploded Friday with the news that Google Chrome extensions are being sold and injected with adware. But the little-known and much more important fact is that your extensions are spying on you and selling your browsing history to shady corporations. HTG investigates.
How-To Geek

Friday, January 17, 2014

Sneaky Scumbag Adware vendors

Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad- and malware-filled:
updates:http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/01/malware-vendors-buy-chrome-extensions-to-send-adware-filled-updates/

Friday, March 08, 2013

temerc.com temp down

Due to an issue with my credit card, the site hosting was not renewed.

Last July my home was robbed and I canceled all our credit cards so this didn't get renewed as it should have.

Also would have helped had they added some type of notice to the subject line instead of leaving it like the one I get every single day regarding resources.

I'm trying to get in touch with them to get it paid up.

Need to check them more closely I suppose. Sorry about that.

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

IAC\ASK Unwanted ineffective(except to make them $$$)Toolbar Installation Practices

From Ben Edleman, a full accounting of what IAC\ASK does to get a toolbar installed. Any toolbar they can make up. Some are a real stretch and plenty of them target kids

And goodness knows the results of having any of these is actually a lesser quality of search results, not to mention all kinds of intrusive system changes, all designed to make IAC\ASK a ton of money

IAC Toolbars and Traffic Arbitrage in 2013

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware v1.70 Released

Announced here

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 1.70
Direct Download Link

Alternatively, you may also click the Check for Updates button on the Update tab of the software.

New Features:
1. New program logo and icons
2. Heuristics for 0-day exploit detection now implemented in protection module for PRO version
3. Threats detected by the protection module are now quarantined automatically by default
4. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware now shows Windows 8 START screen notifications
5. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware now identified in scan logs, registry and About tab
6. More Tools tab enhanced with tons of new content and more to come in the future
7. Option to allow a threat to run temporarily (Allow Temporarily) added to filesystem protection prompts
8. Option to add a detected item to the Ignore List (Allow Always) added to filesystem protection prompts

Improvements:
1. Heuristics for detecting new and unknown threats improved
2. Scanner efficiency improved
3. Microsoft Windows 8 and Internet Explorer 10 now identified correctly in scan logs
4. Help file updated to include information on new features
5. Better compatibility with many other security products in realtime