The following article was written by and is provided courtesy of our friends at Emsisoft. We thought you’d be interested to know that another ransomware attack has been launched worldwide. Those of you who are using Emsisoft are protected from this and other virulent ransomware and malware. Here’s the article from Emsisoft… so you’ll be… Read More »
Another Global Ransomware Attack is Under Way
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Tech Support Scams, Microsoft Support Scams: Scams Scams Everywhere!
Tech Support Scams, Microsoft Support Scams: Scams Scams Everywhere! We published this article in May 2017 – focusing then on the Microsoft support scams going around at the time. This is a big update to that post and we’ve included even more screen shots of Microsoft tech support scams and other tech support scams –… Read More »
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Warning: Beware of Driver Scams
Warning: Beware of Driver Scams We published this article several months ago…and wouldn’t you know… things have only gotten worse since then. Driver scams abound. There are so many of them out there now, that whenever you search for drivers you’ll find more results for scams and malware than you will for factual, helpful information.… Read More »
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Grab a Pickaxe! Let’s Go Mining for Digital Currency
Grab a Pickaxe! Let’s Go Mining for Digital Currency If you don’t know what cryptocurrency is, we’re going to give you some simple background information so that you can understand what’s about to transform the world of adware and maybe even alter the way malware works The most well-known cryptocurrency is Bitcoin. Bitcoin became popular… Read More »
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Announcing our brand new 2017 Cloudeight InfoAve Premium Volume 14 E-book
Announcing our brand new 2017 Cloudeight InfoAve Premium Volume 14 E-book We’re excited to announce that our new 2017 Cloudeight InfoAve Premium Volume 14 E-Book is available now! Our Cloudeight InfoAve Premium E-book Volume 14 includes all the content from every issue of Cloudeight InfoAve Premium from the past year! Our Cloudeight InfoAve Volume 14… Read More »
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The Truth About Windows Defender
The Truth About Windows Defender Microsoft Windows Defender continues its attempts to gain a foothold in the world of PC security, but in our world it’s going to have a really hard time doing that. Let’s just say … “Fool me once, shame on me; fool me twice, shame on you.” Actually, this would be… Read More »
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Emsisoft Receives Another Award
Emsisoft Receives Another Award A few years back, after Malwarebytes and Windows Security Essentials both let users down ( see our articles on Malwarebytes here and here ) we began testing other antimalware and antivirus solutions. After several weeks of intense testing, we found Emsisoft protected computers better than any other security product we tested. But… Read More »
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Cloudeight InfoAve Premium – Issue #744 – Available Online
Cloudeight InfoAve Premium – Issue #744 – Available Online If you’re not a subscriber to Cloudeight InfoAve Premium Newsletter, please join us. It’s delivered to your inbox every Friday and it’s completely free! Subscribe right now! Donations help us continue our mission to keep you informed, separate the truth from the hyperbole, and help you… Read More »
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Cloudeight InfoAve Premium – Issue #745 – Available Online
Cloudeight InfoAve Premium – Issue #745 – Available Online If you’re not a subscriber to Cloudeight InfoAve Premium Newsletter, please join us. It’s delivered to your inbox every Friday and it’s completely free! Subscribe right now! Our Cloudeight InfoAve Premium, Issue #745, was sent to all subscribers on Friday January 19, 2018 at approximately 10:40… Read More »
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Cloudeight InfoAve Premium – Issue #746 – Available Online
Cloudeight InfoAve Premium – Issue #746 – Available Online If you’re not a subscriber to Cloudeight InfoAve Premium Newsletter, please join us. It’s delivered to your inbox every Friday and it’s completely free! Subscribe right now! Our Cloudeight InfoAve Premium, Issue #746, was sent to all subscribers on Friday January 26, 2018 at approximately 10:10… Read More »
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New Tech Support Scam Affects Chrome & Firefox users
New Tech Support Scam Affects Chrome & Firefox users This scam was first reported two days ago ( 6 Feb 2018 ). Since then, it has been discovered that along with Chrome, Firefox and Brave browsers are also affected. This scam works by flooding the browser with 2000 download requests, right after the victim sees… Read More »
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IRS Scams and Tech Support Scams
IRS Scams & Tech Support Scams It’s tax season here in the USA and that means not only do you have to be careful about tech-support / your-computer-is-infected telephone scams, this time of year you have to worry about tax scams and folks impersonating IRS officials. An IRS agent is not going to call you… Read More »
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Cloudeight InfoAve Premium – Issue #749 – Available Online
Cloudeight InfoAve Premium – Issue #749 – Available Online If you’re not a subscriber to Cloudeight InfoAve Premium Newsletter, please join us. It’s delivered to your inbox every Friday and it’s completely free! Subscribe right now! Our Cloudeight InfoAve Premium, Issue #749, was sent to all subscribers on Friday February 16, 2018 at approximately 10:00… Read More »
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Cloudeight InfoAve Premium – Issue #751 – Available Online
Cloudeight InfoAve Premium – Issue #751 – Available Online If you’re not a subscriber to Cloudeight InfoAve Premium Newsletter, please join us. It’s delivered to your inbox every Friday and it’s completely free! Subscribe right now! Our Cloudeight InfoAve Premium, Issue #751, was sent to all subscribers on Friday March 2, 2018 at approximately 8:50… Read More »
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Microsoft Support Scams are Alive and Well
Microsoft Tech Support Scams are Alive and Well The Microsoft tech support scams are on the loose again. In the past week we had five emails from people who were tricked into calling a fake Microsoft number. The fact is that these “Your computer is infected – call this number” popups are simply advertisements superbly… Read More »
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FixMeStick Rears Its Ugly Head Again
FixMeStick Rears Its Ugly Head [Again] With slick Madison-Ave style commercials, glitzy props and paid actors, FixMeStick reminds us that you don’t have to honest to get rich, you just need some good snake oil and a willingness to lie. FixMeStick, is not new, it’s been around for at least 4 years – but the… Read More »
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Cloudeight InfoAve Premium – Issue #754– Available Online
Cloudeight InfoAve Premium – Issue #754– Available Online If you’re not a subscriber to Cloudeight InfoAve Premium Newsletter, please join us. It’s delivered to your inbox every Friday and it’s completely free! Subscribe right now! Our Cloudeight InfoAve Premium, Issue #754 , was sent to all subscribers on Friday March 23, 2018 at approximately 10:35… Read More »
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Cloudeight InfoAve Premium – Issue #755– Available Online
Cloudeight InfoAve Premium – Issue #755– Available Online If you’re not a subscriber to Cloudeight InfoAve Premium Newsletter, please join us. It’s delivered to your inbox every Friday and it’s completely free! Subscribe right now! Our Cloudeight InfoAve Premium, Issue #755 , was sent to all subscribers on Friday March 30, 2018 at approximately 10:15… Read More »
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Driver Scams are Bigger Than Ever… BEWARE!
Driver Scams are Bigger Than Ever… BEWARE! You know what makes me angry? You know what makes me so angry I could gnaw the bark off a Maple tree? Companies that stoop to fraud and deceit to lure and trick people into downloading, installing or buying something… most of the time something worthless. And few do… Read More »
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Cloudeight InfoAve Premium – Issue #760– Available Online
Cloudeight InfoAve Premium – Issue #760– Available Online If you’re not a subscriber to Cloudeight InfoAve Premium Newsletter, please join us. It’s delivered to your inbox every Friday and it’s completely free! Subscribe right now! Our Cloudeight InfoAve Premium, Issue #760 , was sent to all subscribers on Friday, May 4, 2018 at approximately 7:20… Read More »
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