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Stop: Serious security threats have been detected on your computer

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Stop:  Serious security threats have been detected on your computer I was browsing through some freeware sites the other day (and I’m sorry I can’t remember exactly which one) and I saw the warning below appear. It had my real IP address and my ISP. I wondered how many people have been duped by this… Read More »

What are PUPs?

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What are PUPs? PUPs are not things; PUPs is an acronym for Potentially Unwanted Programs. It really should be PUS, Potentially Unwanted Software – but PUS doesn’t sound very nice – though PUS might be closer to what you get when you install PUPs (or malware) on your computer. PUPs are what antivirus/antimalware companies call… Read More »

Emsisoft Wins Again

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Emsisoft Wins Again We’ve been recommending Emsisoft for quite a while now. After Microsoft Security Essentials started going down hill and Malwarebytes decided to ignore many PUPs, we got busy and started evaluating security products. What we were looking for was not a security suite with all kinds of useless stuff (Spam Blockers, site raters,… Read More »

Don’t Let This Fake Flash Player Update Fool You

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Don’t Let This Fake Flash Player Update Fool You If you see this, then you could be in big trouble: It looks real but it is not. I was reading an article on Reuters and suddenly this appeared out of nowhere. This is a fake. It’s not an Adobe Flash Player update at all –… Read More »

The Pharmer in the Dell: Redux

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The Pharmer in the Dell: Redux Ten years ago, in 2005, Dell tried sneaking malware/PUPs onto their computers and we wrote it up and called them out. In 2012 we republished the article ( with some changes ) because Dell again tried to trick consumers into purchasing computers with pre-installed malware and/or PUPs. Well, the more… Read More »

Introducing Ransom32 – Ransomware with a nasty twist

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Introducing Ransom32 – Ransomware with a nasty twist Step right up. Make money by locking other people’s computers. Sign up for the affiliate program and earn 75% of the ransoms you collect! Make thousands of dollars tricking people into installing Ransom32. No, unfortunately, that’s not more of TC’s crazy imagination – it’s a fact. Ransom32… Read More »

Emsisoft has won another award!

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Emsisoft has won another award! Three years ago, when Microsoft Security Essentials failed to pass most independent antivirus tests, we started looking for something that would keep our users safe. We tested AVG and Avast and found not only were they lacking in protecting users from malware and PUPs, but has started hijacking users’ browsers… Read More »

Ransomware is Everywhere: You’ll Want to Bookmark This Page

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Ransomware is Everywhere: You’ll Want to Bookmark This Page Ransomware is a special kind of malware that locks most of your personal files so you can’t use them or even view them until you pay a ransom to the criminal who created the malware. Until now, there was very little you could to save all… Read More »

Beware – This Real Looking Flash Player Update Is Malware

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Beware – This Real Looking Flash Player Update Is MALWARE This malware/rogue has been around for a couple of years now. It faded away and is now back in full vigor. If you see this, then you could be in big trouble: It looks real but it is not. I was reading an article on Reuters… Read More »

The malware landscape has shifted – These online threats are waiting for you in 2016

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The following article was recently posted on the Emsisoft blog. It’s an excellent malware primer that can help take some of the confusion out of understanding the different kinds of malware that lurk around every corner of the Web.  We’ve edited the article slightly. We thank the Emsisoft team for allowing us to share this… Read More »

SaferWeb: Not So Safe

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SaferWeb: Not So Safe In the past two weeks we’ve over a dozen people ask us about SaferWeb. Since we have never had an inquiry about SafeWeb before, we are thinking perhaps SafeWeb is being bundled with other programs or buying a large number of avertisements. So we decided to look into “SafeWeb”. SaferWeb is… Read More »

The Hitler “Ransonware” (Another attempt to steal your money)

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The Hitler “Ransonware” (Another attempt to steal your money) Cybercrooks have put together Hitler-themed ransomware that simply deletes files on encrypted PCs. The (apparently prototype) Windows malware displays a lock screen1 featuring the infamous Austrian dictator, together with a demand falsely stating that files have been encrypted. The ransomware says files can supposedly be recovered… Read More »

FBI Says Ransomware Will Net Criminals $1 Billion This Year

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FBI Says Ransomware Will Net Criminals $1 Billion This Year //from CNN// Cyber-criminals collected $209 million in the first three months of 2016 by extorting businesses and institutions to unlock computer servers. At that rate, ransomware is on pace to be a $1 billion a year crime this year. The FBI told CNN that the… Read More »

Slimeballs Inc.

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Slimeballs Inc. – The Anatomy of a Scam As someone who, along with Darcy, works on dozens of PCs each week, I can tell you from personal experience there are a lot of people getting scammed every day – and not just for a couple of bucks – but for hundreds of dollars. Sometimes I… Read More »

Popcorn Time or Et Tu Brute?

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Popcorn Time or Et Tu Brute? There’s a new ransomware making the rounds. It’s called “Popcorn Time”. Like all ransomware, it locks your personal files using file encryption and then demands a ransom in order to unlock your files. Unless you pay the ransom — or find the right decrypter – you can’t access your… Read More »

Which Is Worse: Driver Updater Programs or Malware?

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Which Is Worse: Driver Updater Programs or Malware? This question crossed my mind this morning as I was working on 2 different PCs, owned by 2 different people, in 2 different countries, who both were experiencing some really bad Windows problems. What did these two PCs have in common? These two  PCs had one thing in common… Read More »

The Anatomy of a Scam

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The Anatomy of a Scam We featured this article several months ago, but we are reprising it because so many people are again getting hooked by scams just like the one we describe in this article. We don’t want it to happen to you. Knowledge is power and knowing what to do if scammers try… Read More »

Beware of the Google Chrome ‘Missing Font’ Hack

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Beware of the Google Chrome ‘Missing Font’ Hack PLEASE NOTE: EMSISOFT USERS ARE PROTECTED FROM THIS HACK. This week a very well executed malware attack aimed at users who visit compromised web sites was found by Mahmoud Al-Qudsi of NeoSmart Technologies. The hack tries to trick users into believing the reason why the font on… Read More »

Microsoft is NEVER Going to Tell You That Your Computer is Infected!

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Microsoft is NEVER Going to Tell You That Your Computer is Infected In the past, most people who have run into the Tech Support or Microsoft Tech Support Scam have been contacted by scammers and warned by telephone that their computers are infected or compromised. But lately, it’s been the fake “your computer is infected… Read More »

Emsisoft’s New Anti-Ransomware Feature

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Emsisoft’s New Anti-Ransomware Feature The latest WannaCry ransomware outbreak raised a lot of eyebrows as it wreaked havoc around the world, causing the shutdown of some hospitals in the U.K. and several large companies to suspend operations for 24 hours or longer. It has been a fact, in the past, that if your device were… Read More »
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