A few months ago I wrote about an awesome anti-malware program called AdwCleaner.
This free utility will quickly scan for and remove virtually every type of unwanted toolbar, adware and browser hijacker that’s out there from your computer.
As I explained in the post, AdwCleaner works great, and since it’s free I highly recommend that everyone download it and run it on occasion.
Well, now the scammers have turned the tables on AdwCleaner by creating a fake look-alike program that claims to be the real AdwCleaner, but is actually malware.
This is how the scam works: [Read more…]
Would you willingly pay an extra $100+ for a memory card that promises to deliver “Premium Sound” from your audio device?
Picking up a malware infection with your PC is almost as easy as counting to 1 these days, but if you bought a Lenovo machine recently it quite possibly was infected with adware before it ever left the factory!
When a program is installed on a computer, bits and pieces of the installation are placed in several places on the hard drive. This is typical of the way most modern operating systems work, and for the most part it works well.
As they have with previous versions of Windows, Microsoft decided to hide “known” file extensions by default in Windows 8.1.