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Avast installs adware!
It would appear that Avast has joined the ranks of adware peddlers, as reader Fred Maxwell brought to my attention yesterday. Sometime around December of last year, a SafePrice option was quietly added...
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Avast detects RSS feed as WireLurker
It’s not easy running a site like The Safe Mac. You get threatened with lawsuits [1], attacked by the bad guys [1, 2] and misidentified as malicious by security companies [1]. Headaches galore! And...
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About the latest Avast false positive
Yesterday, I reported on an issue with Avast identifying my site’s RSS news feed as MacOS:WireLurker-A. However, that post changed over the course of the day, as further testing showed that my initial...
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Avast’s man in the middle
The security community is ablaze with news of Superfish being pre-installed on some Lenovo computers. The primary issue concerning experts is that Superfish replaced SSL certificates, used for ensuring...
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Is downloading from the developer’s site safe?
You should only download software directly from the site of the developer who created the software. This has been a bit of standard advice given by security people like myself when trying to help...
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