{"id":54012,"date":"2016-08-12T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=54012"},"modified":"2016-08-12T15:02:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T15:02:54","slug":"update-enigma-vs-bleepingcomputer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/update-enigma-vs-bleepingcomputer\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE- Enigma Software Vs. BleepingComputer Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BleepingComputer just filed an interesting countersuit against Enigma Software&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Some may recall, Enigma Software <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/09\/pc-pitstop-sides-with-bleepingcomputer\/\">issued a lawsuit<\/a> against BleepingComputer about six months ago regarding a review that one of their independent bloggers had written, which in turn favored another product.\u00a0 Any updates on this particular case have been quite minimal until recently.\u00a0 Yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/bleeping-computer-lawsuit-turns-ugly-and-interesting-at-the-same-time-507213.shtml\">Softpedia <\/a>publicized that the owner of BleepingComputer, Lawrence Abrams is filing a countersuit against Enigma for an alleged smear campaign.<\/p>\n<p>BleepingComputer is confident that Enigma is using their trademark in various websites to label them as malicious.\u00a0 Claims report Enigma is using Bleeping&#8217;s trademarks and content from their site to generate traffic, then reporting Bleeping&#8217;s Rkill and Unhide software are viruses.\u00a0 The claims then state Enigma has the solution to &#8220;fix&#8221; these issues.<\/p>\n<p>Things are getting ugly folks.\u00a0 We will keep you posted as the suit progresses.\u00a0 In the meantime, we want to hear your thoughts!\u00a0 Do you feel like either suits are warranted?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BleepingComputer just filed an interesting countersuit against Enigma Software&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":52463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,183],"tags":[4857,5021],"class_list":["post-54012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-pit-blog","category-tips","tag-bleepingcomputer","tag-enigma"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UPDATE- Enigma Software Vs. 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