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Youndoo creates new Chrome profile
We have found members of the Elex family to create an extra Firefox profile and wrote about it on our blog…
Explained: WMI hijackers
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) hijackers are proving to be a plague to remove for the average user. Even experienced users may…
Here’s your unlimited ATM card
This is not exactly a new kind of scam, but since some genius posted this on our Facebook page we want…
Hosts file hijacks
In an earlier blog post about DNS hijacks, we briefly touched on the hosts file. The hosts file is like your…
Explained: the Malwarebytes Website Protection module
We talked to Steven Burn (aka MysteryFCM), the lead of our Web Protection team and owner of hpHosts, and asked him…
File-in-the-middle hijackers
We are not sure if this is going to be a new trend among browser hijackers, but it seems more than…
PUP Friday: Adware family EoRezo
EoRezo which is sometimes called Tuto4PC, is a family of software bundles that typically offers something useful for free and then…
Tech support scams, two for the price of one
If you have read the blog post about Tech Support Scammers using the Winlogon Shell registry value, you know the basics…
Intentional security holes
Sinkholes and watering holes are two expressions not automatically associated with computer security, yet they are in use to describe two tactics…