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Malwarebytes Premium Ranked Worst Malware Protector
Malwarebytes Premium Ranked Worst Malware Protector German IT security institute AV-Test regularly publishes their rankings based on testing of the latest versions of anti-virus software. As there is rather a lot of it available to you, the more savvy consumer is clearly going to be interested in the results. Particularly…
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Malwarebytes Pushes Fix for System Crashing Update
Malwarebytes Update Causes System Crashing Memory Usage For many users, one of the most important lines of defence is their anti-virus (AV). Many casual users will often set an AV up at install and forget that it exists, letting it run in the background. Sometimes, however, the AV suites can do…
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Tax Credit Refund Scam Is affecting UK Based Individuals
Tax credits are a hot topic at the moment, this is in part to the Conservative death by a thousand cuts, I said cuts, plans which are set to reduce the income of many of the poorest in society by an average of £800 a year. Unfortunately, the adverse media…
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Extensive Malvertising Campaign Targets Yahoo!
This Malvertising Campaign is no longer active having been reported to Yahoo by Anti Malware blocker Malwarebytes, it’s still newsworthy to note the stats and techniques which targeted yahoo Ad Network for now and future reference. According to the following statistics, yahoo and its combined websites has an estimated 6.9…
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Malwarebytes Offers Free Reprieve to Pirates
Oh the conundrum of pirated software, on one hand, it’s better to support the product, on the other hand it’s free, but loyalty is what counts, yeah but it’s free. Software companies have tried many avenues to stop pirates, from banning individuals from using particular online games to as in…
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Xtube Infecting Visitors With Malware
Adult site Xtube, rated in the top 800 sites in the United States, has been compromised and is infecting users with malware, warns Malwarebytes Labs. Visitors to the site can be redirected to the Neutrino Exploit Kit, exploiting a Flash vulnerability (because of course it does), to deliver the Trojan.MSIL.ED…
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Jamie Oliver’s Website Hacked and Used as Malware Distributor
The website of celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, which has an average of 10 million visitors per month, has been hacked. The hackers inserted a string of code that redirects visitors to a WordPress site that uses a Flash, Java, or Silverlight exploit to force malware to run on the visitors’…
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Zero-Day Vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player Reported
An independent security researcher, known as Kafeine, has discovered a zero-day vulnerability in Flash Player, a week after Adobe issued a patch to fix nine vulnerabilities within the multimedia software. Kafeine warns that the zero-day flaw has already been incorporated into the Angler EK exploit, a notorious malware attack kit.…
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New Malware Is Reported To Be Affecting World Of Warcraft Gamers
World of Warcraft gamers and other MMORPG players are subject to hacks and exploits that attempt to steal their user names and passwords, after which the hackers will either rob the character of all their gold, or maybe even sell it off. For those of you out there who are…
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Thousands Of Computers Attacked By MalwareBytes Monday
Do you use Malwarebytes? If so you are among millions of customers of the Anti-Malware software distributor. Many of us monitor and repair our own computers, and we use largely known companies to keep our computers safe and secure. Unfortunately, every once in awhile there is a glitch which causes…
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