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Browser Exploiters

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George Williams

17 Apr, 2014 10:16 PM

Recently, my family's Windows computers have begun to be plagued by unwanted browser add- ins which install themselves as a search engine and generate obtrusive, annoying results to searches. Antivirus programs currently do a poor job of blocking these because they don't invade the OS, just the browsers. Running a scan often finds them, but using the quarantine / delete feature of the anti-malware program usually misses some pieces of these pests, the most notorious of which seems to be "Conduit."

I mention this because it would seem to be a market opportunity. The big players in the anti-malware business seem to have dropped the ball on this issue. MalwareBytes has a Beta product out called "anti-exploit," but this has been pretty ineffective, at least in my experience.

Maybe your team could look into developing a better solution?

GWW

  1. 1 Posted by Kieran on 18 Apr, 2014 12:33 PM

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  2. Kieran closed this discussion on 18 Apr, 2014 12:33 PM.

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