Webroot

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Its a top-end, true all-in-one offering based on a new platform that combines antivirus, password manager, identity protection, VPN, backup, and parental controls. Effective security software shields you from worms, trojans, adware , and more. This is where data encryption and automated backups come in.

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Identity Theft Backups Antivirus Encryption 65

Webroot

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Some applications you download may include adware or utilities that slow down your PC. From a day-to-day perspective, your PC helps you create or enjoy videos, music, photos, documents, and much more to unleash your creativity, plan your life, and run your business. That’s bloatware too. Bloatware isn’t always preinstalled.

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Antivirus Adware Software Internet 115

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Jump ahead: Adware. Adware, also known as malvertising , is a type of malware that downloads or displays advertisements to the user interface. Rather than stealing data, adware is more of an irritant forcing users to see unwanted ads. Most users are familiar with adware in the form of unclosable browser pop-ups.

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Malware Adware Spyware Antivirus 105

Responsible Cyber

APRIL 8, 2020

Businesses must also ensure they have secure backups of their critical data. Hence, since ransomware locks down files permanently (unless businesses want to cough up the ransom) backups are a crucial safeguard to recover from the hack. Ransomware is a type of malware, but others exist, including spyware, adware, bots and Trojans.

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Cybersecurity DDOS Small Business Phishing 98

Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 12, 2021

For example, if an app wants to access something like your contacts or files in your Documents folder on a modern version of macOS, you will be asked to allow it before the app can see that data. In other words, if you connect a drive named “backup”, it would become accessible on the system at /Volumes/backup.

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Malware Backups Adware Social Engineering 108

Spinone

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Data Security: Airtight Backup If you don’t have a robust Data Loss Protection (DLP) plan, all your security strategy will fall apart. The core of all the DLP plan is having a ransomware-proof backup that will let you restore data in case you get hit. Backup your data at least three times a day; 3.

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Ransomware Backups Antivirus Firewall 52

SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

According to the hacking forum XSS, the group’s former public representative known as UNKN “disappeared”, and the malware developers, failing to find him, waited awhile and restored the Trojan infrastructure from backups. Spain and India came in second and third, with the Pirrit family adware as their prevalent threat.

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Malware Ransomware Adware IoT 138