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MALWARE WARNING:Bettersurf

MALWARE WARNING:Bettersurf This addon for both firefox and google chrome has been installing itself randomly on lots of systems. Even those that have only gone to a limited amount of websites.  This malware/addon appeared on my sister's chrome install today.  Some developers that have workstations that only go on thier company's sites and development related sites have reported this addon installed itself. There are lots of other reports of this from various users on various configurations.  Firefox reports: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/977507 StackExchange reports: http://webapps.stackexchange.com/que...s-malware?lq=1 http://webapps.stackexchange.com/que...efox-extension Reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1ql6tx/ UPDATE!!! I have found an anti virus client that was able to delete the source file where this malware came from called updater.exe and I am an affiliate of them so I am able ...

Time for tech--->Do you STILL trust Microsoft to build antivirus support into Windows 8?

OK... Microsoft has announced that Windows 8 will have built in Anti-virus client. This sounds really cool because you don't have to worry about messing with installing anti-virus anymore right..... wrong! You still have to worry because Microsoft Security Essentials has declared Google chrome as a Trojan! Earlier today , we learned that the Microsoft Security Essentials tool began falsely identifying Google Chrome as a piece of malware (”PWS:Win32/Zbot”) and removing it from people’s computers. Lots of people are using Google Chrome. (I, however use and prefer Firefox though) This is also a weird piece of news.... IE's market share has fallen the most in a long time.... Google's is increasing They totally did this on purpose to get less people to use chrome by making it a trojan in MSE. This is very pathetic of MS and something an angsty teen would do, not a professional software company. Also what about people that want to use alternate media pla...