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Mike Nash: Ask Toolbar in Online Armor Free? Nearly…

May 18, 2009

Read the journey… Bundle Ask Toolbar and have an early retirement? The Scoop Sometimes, I hate the internet… …but most of the time it rocks A rock and a hard place Mike Nash wrote: Unfortunately, adding that bar would mean that our users would hate us. Vocally. Is it rational hatred? Who cares. Hate is [...]

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Symantec Support deleted popular security program

May 13, 2009

Monday, May 11, 2009 This week I was surprised to hear that a Symantec support rep actually told a customer that WinPatrol was a virus and during a remote assistance phone call they deleted WinPatrol from their system. Bits from Bill: Symantec Support says WinPatrol is a Virus HPHosts: Symantec charges $99 to remove WinPatrol [...]

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Apple plugs more than 60 vulnerabilities

May 12, 2009

Security updates for both Mac and Windows systems. 5/12/09 Mac OS X v10.5.7 / Security Update 2009-002 Safari 3.2.3 5/11/09 iTunes 8.1

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Updates fix critical Adobe Reader and Acrobat Vulnerabilities

May 12, 2009

Adobe Reader users on Windows can find the appropriate update here: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=10&platform=Windows. Adobe Reader users on Macintosh can find the appropriate update here: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=10&platform=Macintosh. Adobe Reader users on UNIX can find the appropriate update here: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=10&platform=Unix. Acrobat Acrobat Standard, Pro and Pro Extended users on Windows can find the appropriate update here: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=1&platform=Window. Acrobat 3D [...]

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Adobe Reader and Acrobat JavaScript vulnerability

April 29, 2009

Adobe’s second major vulnerability this year, this one is in two JavaScript functions; getAnnots() and spell.customDictionaryOpen(). From Adobe’s Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT). All currently supported shipping versions of Adobe Reader and Acrobat (Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.1, 8.1.4, and 7.1.1 and earlier versions) are vulnerable to this issue. Adobe plans to provide updates [...]

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StopBadware delists Ascentive

April 27, 2009

Fast on the heels of delisting CyberDefender. After a few months of ongoing communication with StopBadware, Ascentive (operator of the website FinallyFast.com) has released new versions of its PC SpeedScan Pro and Spyware Striker Pro products. Both appear to address all of the issues that led us to labeling them badware. We have therefore updated [...]

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Softpedia-Comodo Software Removed

April 27, 2009

Softpedia received an official cease and desist letter (C&D) from the Comodo legal team April, 15th to “discontinue all references on Softpedia identifying CIS as adware” within seven days. Softpedia News, CIS is adware: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Comodo-Software-Removed-From-Softpedia-110169.shtml Certifiedbug, May 27, 2008. Comodo SafeSurf Toolbar-ASK Toolbar I no longer use or recommend the Comodo Firewall anymore, it has [...]

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Stopbadware delists CyberDefender

April 20, 2009

As of as of April 17, 2009. After several months of ongoing communication, CyberDefender has released a version of its flagship suite, CyberDefender Early Detection Center, that appears to address all of the issues that led us to labeling it badware. We have therefore archived the alert. Thanks to the company for keeping the lines [...]

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Competitors try to force removal of independent security program

April 7, 2009

Beta News, Security. “It’s hard enough to make a name for yourself as an independent anti-malware company, without competitors demanding your software be uninstalled.” For years, Spybot Search & Destroy has been one of Fileforum’s single most installed pieces of software, with nearly 67 million downloads since 2000 on our sister site alone. It’s one [...]

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Mysterious ‘PIFTS’ exe causes confusion

March 10, 2009

Search engines light up as users seek information and conspiracy theories abound. Apprantly the pifts file was part of an update pushed out by Symantec to their Norton customers, however… Update, 12:46 p.m. ET: The bad guys know that people are interested in this search term, and appear to have latched on to it already. [...]

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