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PC Matic Welcomes Connections with Potential Investors for Cybersecurity Investment

Kayla Elliott / February 4, 2021

PC Matic Cybersecurity Investment: Makers of PC Matic, Open to Investor Opportunities Cybersecurity Investment Opportunities. PC Matic, a privately held, American anti-virus software firm, would like to develop relationships with the investment community. This is in anticipation of a future outside investment, said CEO Rob Cheng. He founded Sioux City, Iowa-based PC Pitstop in 1999 and owns […]

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PC Matic University Malware Test

Mary James / February 2, 2021

Class Number Four Welcome to the fourth in our PC Matic University series. This week’s installment is a quiz regarding your knowledge surrounding malware. Do you know what it is and the different kinds? Meanwhile, if you missed the first three classes, no worries, you can catch The Internet Test here and link back to

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Feature Expansion – Endpoint Vulnerabilities

PC Matic Cybersecurity / January 31, 2021

To expand your visibility over possible vulnerabilities in your environment, we have expanded PC Matic PRO‘s Endpoint Vulnerabilities report to include two new reports: SuperShield Blacklist/Learning Mode Enabled, and Lockout Thresholds Not Set. SuperShield Blacklist/Learning Mode Enabled When SuperShield is left in Blacklist Only or Learning Mode outside of a normal test or implementation phase, it leaves

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Double Digits; PC Matic’s Whitelist Turns 10

Mary James / January 22, 2021

A Decade Of Protection Between the end of 2019 and the start of 2020, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) began heavily recommending whitelisting technology. Brands that hadn’t been using it were converting over. Big name AV companies began slowly integrating the technology into their offerings. It’s over a year later, and they

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PC Matic Joins Elite Group

Mary James / January 12, 2021

National Institute of Standards and Technology From time to time, we cover topics from NIST. If you joined us for Cybersecurity Awareness Month, you followed along with the themes that NIST set out. However, you may not be sure what NIST does. From the Wikipedia page, “The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is a

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PC Matic’s New Look

Mary James / January 5, 2021

Our 4.0 Update User Interface (UI) is so important for any product. If you don’t have an easy way to use your software, you probably won’t use it at all. And that’s not great when it’s software meant to keep you protected online. Then again, if a product is constantly changing, it becomes annoying trying

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PC Matic University Computer Safety Test

Mary James / December 9, 2020

PC Matic University PC Matic University (PCMU) has been in development for over a year now. The quizzes, videos, and tutorials are meant to give you a better understanding of how your computer runs. We also show you how PC Matic protects and optimizes your device. All of this is free to you. Cybersecurity is

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Holiday Shopping 2020: PC Matic Asks

Mary James / December 4, 2020

We Asked, You Answered We like to ask the public from time to time about habits they have pertaining to certain activities. We’ve dug into work habits during the pandemic, RDP awareness, and now holiday shopping habits. Over 5000 people answered our shopping survey. With 53% stating that their shopping habits have changed due to

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PC Matic Ad Blockers and You

Mary James / November 23, 2020

What Are They Ad blockers are a great way to declutter webpages. Have you ever clicked on a Pinterest recipe or a sports headline only to have to scroll through endless ads to get to the content you want? An ad blocker clears all of those for you. There’s another advantage to using ad blockers.

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Level Up; Updating Your Security

Mary James / September 9, 2020

We Asked, You Answered PC Matic has been hard at work collecting information from people like you to create a clearer picture of what our lives look like now that we’re working and learning from home. A survey of over 1,000 Americans yielded some interesting results regarding passwords and privacy. Of those questioned, only 1

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