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Several months ago I wrote a blog post about an adware downloader which after execution downloaded a few adware programs and installed them on the computer, giving no chance for the user to skip or bypass their installation. This time, we will analyze an application, which installs similar types of adware programs on user computers.We […]

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You’ve boarded up your windows. You’ve sabotaged the stairwell. You’ve thrown that one whiny guy to the zombie hordes as bait (it’s okay, nobody liked him anyway). Even so, fans of all things Walking Dead would do well to consider how badly they want Walking Dead content via the noble art of installing things and […]

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In the last two days we noticed that the domain facbook.de has been actively used to distribute bundles of Adobe’s Flash Player with browser toolbars that you may not want. The domain was registered in summer 2011 only as a parking domain. It now redirects to domains like "get-browser-update.com" or "get-flashplayer.com", where the original facebook.de […]

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