Monthly Archives: October 2012
Behold…Anti-Malware Man!
Happy Halloween Everybody! If you have been keeping up with the Malwarebytes Facebook or Twitter pages, you might have heard about the interview done on Category5 TV last night with none other than the newest hero in the fight against malware, ANTI-MALWARE MAN!
Pick A Download… Part 2
Last week I wrote a blog post on the dangers of ads posing as fake download buttons on various download web sites. Since then I received a lot of feedback from our readers and other security researchers on different tools available to help users avoid these dangers by blocking the ads entirely. Instead of adding…
Timely detection: the key to a good anti-malware solution
In this connected world, time is of the essence. The bad guys are counting on releasing their malicious programs and infecting machines before security companies have time to analyze those samples and provide detection signatures to block the threat. Although antivirus companies have evolved their technologies and can now provide proactive heuristic detections (essentially this…
Pick a Download, Any Download!
Various download sites have been plastering ads all over their pages for years, some of which are just for other types of software and some of them are for services. However, a new trend among these ads has emerged, adding an extra download button where there should not be one. Many users have been falling…
A Picture is worth a Thousand Messages
Instant messaging is not a new concept; in fact, instant messaging software has been around for over 20 years in many different forms. A more popular method of instant messaging these days is done with the use of the software known as Skype. Skype allows for more than just text chatting but also calling a…
