Tag: SMITFRAUD

If there's one anti-malware application that we (and you) hold near and dear, it's Malwarebytes. How do you know when your crapware-fighting application has really made it big? When it starts being targeted by rogue antivirus software, of course. Protection System -- which sounds about as real as The Christopher Guest School for Mixed Martial Arts -- detects MBAM during its bogus scan procedure ...

Silly me. I figured as antivirus and antimalware protection became more sophisticated that I'd see fewer infected machines for repair. Man, was I wrong. Even my friends and family - who are fairly computer savvy and careful - have wound up in trouble. If you're at all competent with a computer, chances are you've had requests from people to fix these problems. I've heard different programs ...