Donna's SecurityFlash - All Comments

re: Students Signing Up For Computer Hacking

Steven Burn — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:30:43 GMT

I can see the obvious plus side to providing the knowledge to protect networks, but as many have already said, handing this information out willy nilly, especially when there's no guarantee the people are either ethical themselves, or will have a guarantee of a well paid job, means the risk of their turning into criminals is far greater.

re: My scareware night and how McAfee lost a customer

Bharath M N — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:31:59 GMT

Am a bit too suspicious about the entire article itself!

Just a note I am not a fan of McAfee ;)

This family of rogue security application downloads additional components while installing on the machine.

They don't come as a single installer file, so even if you have a fake codec or the rogue installer one cannot install the rogue completely on the system without additional effort. (and also need to possess all the components as well)

I think the the total experience was fake (a Fake experience with a fake security application), The author picked up a wrong rogue on the day to blame McAfee. He should have picked any other rogue and the article would have blended perfectly with that rogue.

re: New Declaration by IObit about MBAM's database;Iobit apologizes

Basil (aka gr277) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:29:00 GMT

Very surprising how honest one tries to become, when hit in the pocket!!

re: My scareware night and how McAfee lost a customer

donna — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:55:31 GMT

He said he's not sure how his PC got it. Could be from video codecs? Strange though that McAfee have failed to block it...since it's a year old threat.

re: Hotmail imposes tracking cookies for logout

Basil (aka gr277) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:47:50 GMT

I can not see any logic in Microsoft doing something like that. As far as I am concerned, it only inconveniences users (even with a work around).

IMHO it only indicates Microsoft's arrogant attitude. If there is any logic, they should have explained/publicised it before taking such a step.

Hotmail imposes tracking cookies for logout

Donna's SecurityFlash — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:21:07 GMT

Hotmail users are now unable to log out of their account if the browser they are using does not accept

Windows XP on netbooks to lose life support? Post-Christmas reality check

Donna's SecurityFlash — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:17:43 GMT

You might not be able to buy a brand-new netbook running Windows XP much past the New Year, even though

re: IOBit Steals Malwarebytes' Intellectual Property

Lilsy — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:19:22 GMT

Who knows what happened.

MBAM should be more secure against intrusion ..shouldn't they?

Isn't that their business?

Maybe they are slandering a competitor or maybe IOBIT stole their database.

In any case

Would I want to use MBAM is they can'r even protect themselves?

Is a conundrum.

re: My scareware night and how McAfee lost a customer

Bharath M N — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:24:56 GMT

Donna, I am not sure if i am reading this right!

Antivirus Pro 2009 rogue from the Braviax family was actively distributed in November 2008! But Larry ran it to this in November 2009? Strange(Unless he had installed the rogue himself)

re: Vint Cerf: 'Google doesn't know who you are'

Ben — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:19:45 GMT

MediaCurves.com conducted a study among 295 viewers of a news clip featuring Google’s new Dashboard, which allows users to view information about their previous searches. Results found that that more than one-third of viewers (38%) reported that they will use Google’s search engine less frequently after learning of the feature. Among the viewers who reported that they would use Google less, more than half (52%) reported that they would use Yahoo as their alternative search engine. Furthermore, nearly half of the viewers (48%) stated that they were “not at all comfortable” with search engine companies monitoring and collecting data from their searches.

re: IObit denies stealing of MBAM database

===Anonimo — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:30:40 GMT

esta claro IOBIT roubaram ou um dos funcionario pregisoso fez.

Eu proprio fiz o teste no meu PC e deu positivo

re: Malware SPAM: Congratulations!! You have won todays Macbook Air winner.zip

Basil (aka gr277) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:46:31 GMT

....But I have not entered any competition!!

It never fails to amazed me, how galable people are!!

re: Google launches privacy Dashboard service. What does Google know about me?

Basil (aka gr277) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:28:51 GMT

Thank you Donna....Very interesting.

I just visited my Google Dashboard, and I see that it lists my Postal Code. This means that my house can be pinpointed within an accuracy of 3 or 4 houses on the same street.

This is the only part of the record that would concern me.

They also list some of the web sites I have visited but not all.

re: Heads-up about IObit and MBAM issue

donna — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:26:34 GMT

That is great news, Corrine! It's always nice to see cooperation from sites like them (where end-users often visit to download programs to try or use). Thanks, Corrine {{Hugs}}

re: Heads-up about IObit and MBAM issue

Corrine — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:23:23 GMT

Softpedia also removed IObit from their download site. See news.softpedia.com/.../Malwarebytes-IObit-Stole-Our-Signatures-Database-125928.shtml

re: Heads-up about IObit and MBAM issue

Max — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:03:29 GMT

It looks and sounds like that the tired old AV companies have really got their nickers in a twist about a 'new kid on the block' who is offering a better product for free...

I have installed iobit360 on several of my computers and none of the 'bad things' claimed by the other AV 'companies' has happened to any of my computers. My subjective tests of iobit360 compared to the other 'offerings' is that it runs a damned site better than any of those other offerings.

As to the claims about 'intelectual property theft' that remains to be proved by those making the claim.

I would suggest they should 'validate' their claim by making it official and legal before a judge instead of whining about it on the 'net.

re: IOBit Steals Malwarebytes' Intellectual Property

jpav — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:48:01 GMT

I think it's planed by MBAM to defame and clean his compitetor

re: IOBit Steals Malwarebytes' Intellectual Property

IOBit_is_clueless — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:43:50 GMT

It's funny how IOBit is trying to defend themselves. First they say some annon user submited a infected file to them that is flagged by both IOBits and MBAM with same name. The BIG question they can't or refuse to answer is how did that user get the file because MBAM didn't even release it and no such file exist in the wild???? Then they, IOBits change their tune and say that MBAM themselves submitted the file annonymously to IOBits to trap them. Sure seems to me that IOBits got caught with the perverbial "hand in the cookie jar" and now the lid to the cookie jar has slammed down on the hand and IOBits is feverishly trying anything to refute the allegations.

Personally, how can any consumer even have one ounce of faith in a sucurity company's own admission that they just blindly enter into their own database signatures from annonymously submitted samples without first anylyzing it themselves. As a consumer, I would want to be as far away from that kind of crapware as possible.

re: Apple sneaks malware protection into Snow Leopard

mike — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:39:14 GMT

I’ve heard there are some wildlife groups trying to get Apple to do more stuff with the actual S.L.’s lol. I don’t know- people are saying it’s good PR for Apple- they should jump on that.

IObit is denies stealing of MBAM database

Donna's SecurityFlash — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:57:17 GMT

IObit was found to steal Malwarebytes Anti-Malware's database . MBAM team is smart enough to