Monthly Archives: November 2008

Alert: CyberDefender Early Detection Center

Posted on November 25, 2008 by Maxim Weinstein

[Update 4/17/09: This alert is no longer active. See this blog post for more information.] Today we released a badware alert about CyberDefender Early Detection Center: We find that the CyberDefender ‘Early Detection Center’ application is badware because it fails … Continue reading →

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Introducing BadwareBusters.org (beta)!

Posted on November 20, 2008 by Maxim Weinstein

StopBadware.org and Consumer Reports WebWatch today are introducing in beta BadwareBusters.org, a new online community for people looking for help removing viruses, spyware and other badware from their computers and websites. We¹ve seen from our collective experience that there wasn¹t … Continue reading →

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Oliver guest blogs at SecurityFocus

Posted on November 14, 2008 by Maxim Weinstein

StopBadware.org staff security researcher Oliver Day has a guest blog post at SecurityFocus that explores the relationship between Microsoft’s anti-piracy measures and the number of vulnerable Windows machines around the world. His conclusion: The simple answer is that the current … Continue reading →

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Apparent spam host taken offline

Posted on November 13, 2008 by Maxim Weinstein

McColo, a web hosting company, was taken offline by its network peer, Hosting Electric, after reports by Jart Armin of HostExploit and Brian Krebs of the Washington Post implicated McColo as a major host of spam. As you can see, … Continue reading →

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