PSA for CCleaner users!!
Hackers Hid Backdoor In CCleaner Security App With 2 Billion Downloads -- 2.3 Million Infected
Read more:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/09/18/ccleaner-cybersecurity-app-inf...
Forum Discussion
This is a pretty old topic now... No, this isn't what you get with some free software, there are tons of products out there that are free (and in some cases can be purchased for more features) that work amazingly well... Sometimes a bad egg hatches and the good software dies off for good, other times someone makes a bad decision then notices it backfire.
Good Stuff that has stayed decent over time:
Malware Bytes
CCleaner (Just a small hiccup...)
HiJackThis
ATTO
Skype
TeamViewer
HWMonitor
CPU-Z
3dMark
DropBox
Things that went to absolute crap!
Anything owned by Lavasoft
Anything owned by Lavalys
Photobucket
SpyBot S&D (not sure what happened to them, Malwarebytes just kicked their **bleep**)
Photobucket was a funny one... Consumer backlash was rather massive on twitter, facebook, and everywhere else that they had a Social PR presence, it got to the point that it seems Photobucket killed PR entirely and stuck to their guns going from a free offering to a $50 offering, that suddenly was only available on a $400 offering. The idiots never learned and Photobucket is nearly dead now. Ranked very highly on Alexa (Top 100), they are now at almost 3000, and falling rapidly.
C0RR0SIVEwrote:Things that went to absolute crap!
Anything owned by Lavasoft
Anything owned by Lavalys
Photobucket
SpyBot S&D (not sure what happened to them, Malwarebytes just kicked their **bleep**)
Photobucket was a funny one... Consumer backlash was rather massive on twitter, facebook, and everywhere else that they had a Social PR presence, it got to the point that it seems Photobucket killed PR entirely and stuck to their guns going from a free offering to a $50 offering, that suddenly was only available on a $400 offering. The idiots never learned and Photobucket is nearly dead now. Ranked very highly on Alexa (Top 100), they are now at almost 3000, and falling rapidly.
I used to use Adaware and Spybot S&D years ago. At the time they were the best free programs/apps for adware and spyware. It's interesting how things change like that over time.
Photobucket: They're getting exactly what they deserve, the jerks. To throw so many people out into the cold like that, and so suddenly? SMH.
I used to use Spybot S&D. It was fantastic.
