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Lenovo working with Microsoft and McAfee to counter Superfish

ArunKumar@TWCN — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 17:44:14 +0000

Lenovo is in a fix as its SuperFish was caught in the net. Superfish installs itself as a certificate in the trusted certificates section so that more of advertisements can be shown while running searches etc. Though Lenovo maintains that it included the adware to improve the shopping experience of Lenovo users, it also acknowledged […]

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Lenovo debacle makes buyers turn to Microsoft Signature Edition computers

ArunKumar@TWCN — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 13:04:56 +0000

Following the Lenovo Superfish debacle, people are looking for places and vendors who can provide them with “clean” computers. Clean means no adware, no crapware, no bloatware but only the required operating system and required apps. Microsoft Store has been selling Signature Edition computers all along for past three years that provide customers with “clean” […]

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Class Action Lawsuit against Lenovo for bundling Superfish under consideration

ShiwangiPeswani@TWC — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 17:18:59 +0000

A Class Action Lawsuit against Lenovo, for bundling Superfish malware on its PCs, appears to be under consideration. Lenovo, the Chinese multinational computer Technology Company lately has been in headlines for shipping the machines preloaded with an adware Superfish. The company has reportedly sold millions of such laptops and desktops since September 2014. Although, the […]

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Lenovo machines come pre-installed with Superfish Adware

AnandKhanse@TWC — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 18:26:53 +0000

If you have recently bought a Lenovo machine, it might contain an Adware called Superfish. Aghast security experts tweeted that some of the Lenovo machines shipped in the month of January still had the Superfish software installed. Lenovo installs Superfish Adware The tweets showed that the adware allows third parties to steal your personal and sensitive data […]

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Now Micromax Smartphone starts installing Adware

AnkitGupta@TWCN — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 04:19:56 +0000

Micromax, an Indian phone manufacturing company is highly in demand across the nation due to the features and price flexibility it provides to its Smartphone users. But recently one of the users of Micromax has reported that his Micromax A093 Canvass Fire is installing many unwanted apps which he had never tried to install before. […]

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Microsoft explains detection change for Browser modifiers and Adware

AbhishekShukla@TWC — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 03:55:10 +0000

Recently Microsoft released important changes to detecting browser modifiers and adware, with a view to improving Internet Explorer security and browsing experience. Microsoft has mentioned the changes to how it detects browser modifiers and adware and they are: Unacceptable behaviors Browser consent dialogs Unacceptable Behaviors: Microsoft will detect the following browser modifier behavior: Bypassing dialog […]

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Chrome extensions injecting adware into web pages visited, removed by Google

ShiwangiPeswani@TWC — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 17:54:37 +0000

Google has always been very strict for violation of its terms of service and today the search engine giant removed two of its Chrome extensions for the same reason. Google today removed two Chrome extensions ‘Tweet this page’ and ‘Add to Feedly’ after they started displaying unwanted ads to users in browsing sessions, which clearly […]

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Microsoft explains Ad-injection & how adware can make it to your computer

AnandKhanse@TWC — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 01:39:37 +0000

Uninstalling a stubborn adware off your PC can be a daunting task. One may think, how these adware slip in even if you have protection software installed. Well, Microsoft via its post on Malware Protection center page explains it could possibly due to another piece of potentially unwanted software download: software bundlers. Adware & Ad-Injection […]

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Social Bots are on the rise, and marching, says Microsoft

AnkitGupta@TWCN — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:38:21 +0000

If the growth of social networking websites is a known fact then so is the emergence of social bots. In social sites people found and adopted an innovative way to connect and communicate. But social networking did not only attracted interest from people, it also generated interest of malware so called social bots who also […]

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