Results for 'adware'
Scheduled Tasks
March 23, 2015 - Many years ago, I wrote a little batch file to find and delete Scheduled Tasks added by an adware variant called...
A Week in Security (Feb 22 – 28)
March 2, 2015 - Last week, our experts found exploit served on interesting sites and fake online checkers. Senior Security Researcher Jérôme Segura discovered a...
Bogus Search Engine Leads to Exploits
February 27, 2015 - Here at Malwarebytes, we take a pretty strong stance against Adware in general, and Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs) in particular. We...
Lenovo and the Superfish fiasco
February 20, 2015 - Chinese PC manufacturer Lenovo made the news in a big way this week, but unfortunately these weren’t good news for anybody....
A New Twist on Tech Support Scams Pop Ups
February 12, 2015 - Tech support scams are not going anywhere any time soon. The number of fake pop ups and bogus 1-800 numbers keep...
Redressed Facebook Scam Makes a Comeback Before The New Year
December 29, 2014 - Monday morning. Christmas was four days ago. Three days from now will be the first day of 2015. You get out of bed,...
PUPS are Persistent
July 22, 2014 - I wrote about bundles in the past, having investigated complaints from a forum user that we had installed undesirable software, along his...
Misleading eBook Advertisements Install PUPs
July 2, 2014 - Regardless of what it is, the Internet is filled with misleading advertisements. Most of you reading this can relate to being...
A RAT in Bird’s clothing
May 22, 2014 - Some folks worry when they get a malicious e-mail, Facebook update or Tweet from some untrusted account with a suspicious link...
Fake Tor app in the iOS App Store
March 19, 2014 - Over the last couple of months people from the Tor Project have been trying to get Apple to remove a fake...
