Yahoo wants to get in on the popularity of video games and the growing Esports community. Today, the company launched Yahoo ESports. It is a channel on Yahoo dedicated to some of the most popular games out there - League of Legends, Dota 2, CS:GO, Hearthstone, Street Fighter V, and others. The new site, at esports.yahoo.com, promises to cover esports with the same level of … [Read more...]
OS X El Capitan security update blocks Apple Ethernet drivers
If the Ethernet network connection on your Mac running OS X 10.11 El Capitan stopped working in the last week, you are not alone. Apple released an update to the kernel extension blacklist that is used by the System Integrity Protection feature. This update installs automatically in the background, so there was nothing to approve or help people be aware of the cause of the … [Read more...]
Microsoft announces Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection for Windows 10
Microsoft announced increased capability coming to the Windows 10 built-in malware protection service Windows Defender. The new abilities will be labeled Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection and will be available this year. While Windows Defender can protect a single machine, it is not very useful in the enterprise environment as it lacks central reporting and … [Read more...]
ESET antivirus false positive blocks website access
ESET experienced a false positive this morning. It was falsely identifying various websites as Javascript or HTML threats. The definition database, version 13102, was pushed out and expanded JS/ScrInject.B trojan and HTML/Refresh.BC trojan to include the false positives. ESET wrote up the experience in Alert5879 and have since deployed an updated virus signature database … [Read more...]
BrowserAddonsView shows you all browser extensions, plugins, toolbars
Software developer NirSoft released a new utility today. Titled BrowserAddonsView, the utility is very useful for analyzing a computer quickly for browser addons such as extensions, plugins, toolbars, and ActiveX components. This puts all of this information in one location. It could be very helpful for malware clean-up to ensure that there are no remnants left behind in the … [Read more...]