Categories: Explained Categories: News Tags: potentially unwanted programs Tags: PUAs Tags: PUPs If you’ve ever downloaded software onto your computer, chances are you’ve unknowingly cluttered your machine with potentially unwanted programs. |
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Read moreCredit to Author: Bill Cozens| Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 14:35:10 +0000
In this post, we break down three endpoint security for Mac best practices to help you prevent phishing attacks, DDoS attacks, and much more.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2022 12:54:27 +0000
Scammers are using the popularity of messaging service WhatsApp to trick users into signing up for malvertising
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Read moreCredit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2022 11:05:53 +0000
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| There are many ways to to make your computer run faster. Let’s take a look. Categories: How-tos Tags: hardwareMalwarebytesPUPssoftwarespeed up |
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Read moreCredit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 18:34:48 +0000
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| Adware and PUPs can actually be far more invasive and dangerous on the Mac than “real” malware. We demonstrate with analysis of Crossrider, a sophisticated Mac adware that uses evasion and persistence techniques more complex than nation-state malware. Categories: Tags: adwarebundlorecrossridermacMac adwaremac threatsmacOSmacspotentially unwanted programsPUPssurfbuyer |
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Read moreCredit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 20:04:21 +0000
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| We look at the ways in which criminals and vultures use less-than-honest tactics to fleece the search engine industry for a piece of its billion-dollar pie. Categories: Tags: adfraudadvertisementsadwareextensionshijackerspotentially unwanted programsPUPsresultssearchsearch enginesearch engine optimizationsearch enginesSEOseo poisoningsponsored |
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Read moreCredit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 18:40:06 +0000
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| For the first time ever, Mac threats broke into Malwarebytes’ top five overall detections of 2019. Take a look at this and other telemetry that shows Mac malware is certainly on the rise. Categories: Tags: browser extensionsMac adwaremac malwaremac telemetrymac threat detectionsmac threatsnewtabpotentially unwanted programsPUPssafari |
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Read moreCredit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 21:06:16 +0000
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| QxSearch is a group of search hijackers that try to make the user think the install failed or was incomplete. Is it that they don’t want to be found and removed? Or just bad programming? Categories: Tags: bigsrch.xyzChrome ExtensionQxsearchsearch hijackers |
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