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February 2017

Just How Long Has Time Warner Cable Been Ripping You Off??

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Spectrum, Previous Time Warner Cable, Involved In Massive Lawsuit New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman made his opinion clear when he announced the lawsuit against Charter, and it’s subsidiarity Spectrum (previously Time Warner Cable – TWC).  According to Hacker News Scheiderman stated, “The allegations in today’s lawsuit confirm what millions of New Yorkers have long […]

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Tis The Season For Tax Fraud

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Tax Refunds Delayed Due to Historic Tax Fraud This year, tax refunds for those claiming an Earned Income Tax Credit or Additional Child Tax Credit have been delayed until after the end of February.  The delay in refunds caused several reasons for speculation, however the IRS is reporting it is due to increased measures taken

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Computer Virus Software

700,000 FBI, DHS and NSA Accounts Breached and Sold on Dark Web

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Government Accounts Breached Recent reports claim the police forum, PoliceOne, was successfully breached, leaving over 700,000 user accounts exposed.  These accounts included contacts from the NSA, DHS and FBI.  The breached files reportedly contained usernames, passwords and email addresses.  A PoliceOne official made the following statement to IB Times regarding the breach, “While we store only limited user

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PC Pitstop – Perfect Detection in VB RAP Test

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PC Pitstop made numerous improvements to the new engine.  Super Shield 2.0 improvements  include, Enhanced signature based detections Enhanced hash based detections Enhanced DLL detections 100% internally developed and implemented eliminating our reliance on Vipre’s black list engine New script based detections which block malicious scripts run through Power Shell, wscript, cscript, MSHTA, and runDLL before they

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Malwarebytes Misclassification of PC Matic Resolved

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Malwarebytes began detecting PC Matic as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) / Potentially Unwanted Application (PUA)  on December 5th.  We immediately initiated efforts to resolve the issue. On December 23rd, we made contact with the proper people at Malwarebytes. After that point, the Malwarebytes personnel were responsive and professional, including working through the holiday weekend

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PC Pitstop – Perfect Score in AV Comparatives Detection Test

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4000 VIRUSES, 1000 RANSOMWARE SAMPLES, 100% DETECTION As you may recall from the Q3 2016 PC Pitstop Newsletter our CEO, Rob Cheng, mentioned the need for consumers and IT Pros alike to focus on detection rates when choosing their anti-virus solution.  Therefore, PC Pitstop partnered with AV Comparatives to create a comprehensive and superior detection

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PC Matic Expands to Android Protection – Available Now on Google Play

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With malware threats on mobile devices increasing at exponential rates, we determined it is time to expand our award-winning protection, PC Matic, to Android devices.  This mobile security solution provides our real-time protection as well as on-demand scanning. This security solution allows for peace of mind when installing apps.  PC Matic for Android devices scans

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PC Matic Pro Increases Exposure – Attending and Presenting at Multiple Events

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Throughout the fourth quarter of 2016, the PC Matic Pro team continued to travel to various trade shows and conferences to maintain exposure of our product.  These events included the Virus Bulletin Conference, IT Nation, MSP World Fall Conference, AMTSO Conference, Varnex Fall Conference, SpiceWorld and several Secret Sauce events. Hope Gauthier, Channel Sales Manager

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