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BrianDrab 15k!

Congrats Brian! It's a good job we moved to a server that can handle your post rate :p
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- Post #7
- Nov 2, 2017
- Forum: The Lounge
Happy Birthday axe0!

Belated Happy Birthday!
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- Post #12
- Oct 15, 2017
- Forum: The Lounge
Happy Birthday niemiro!

Happy Birthday!
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- Post #4
- Oct 15, 2017
- Forum: The Lounge
Kaspersky working with Russian Intelligence

Of course I'm not comparing the hackers, I think it's quite obvious I was talking about the bit I quoted. All of your points here apply to the Piriform hack: [/COLOR]
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- Post #18
- Oct 12, 2017
- Forum: Security News
Kaspersky working with Russian Intelligence

I agree it's disturbing, but Piriform (and potentially, Avast by association) suffered the same fate and many still happily use their products - including me and I'm sure many others here. Remember, a few months back Kaspersky offered the US Government to see their source code: Kaspersky Gives...
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- Post #16
- Oct 12, 2017
- Forum: Security News
Kaspersky working with Russian Intelligence

Have you got a link to corroborating this? I can't find anything to back this and while your links here confirm Kaspersky's involvement, they only speculate on how deep that involvement was.
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- Post #13
- Oct 10, 2017
- Forum: Security News
Hello from South Carolina

Welcome!
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- Post #7
- Oct 10, 2017
- Forum: Introductions - New Members
Hi From Buffalo

Welcome!
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- Post #7
- Oct 9, 2017
- Forum: Introductions - New Members
...and from Bangkok

Welcome!
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- Post #9
- Oct 9, 2017
- Forum: Introductions - New Members
Happy Birthday, Will Watts!

Happy birthday, Will!
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- Post #7
- Oct 8, 2017
- Forum: The Lounge
Our hardworking Windows Update Analyst PeterJ hits 1k posts!

Congrats Peter! Thanks for all of your hard work.
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- Post #7
- Oct 7, 2017
- Forum: The Lounge
Digerati - 3,000 Posts

Congrats, Bill!
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- Post #3
- Sep 23, 2017
- Forum: The Lounge
CCleaner 5.33 and CCleaner Cloud 1.07.3191 Infected Installers

The official, Piriform signed, CCleaner installers for these versions were compromised and installed malware on the host systems. See here for more details: Cisco's Talos Intelligence Group Blog: CCleanup: A Vast Number of Machines at Risk
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- Sep 18, 2017
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- Forum: News You Can Use
What are you listening to

Given the site issues as of late, I thought this would be good to share:
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- Post #413
- Sep 14, 2017
- Forum: The Lounge
Our Windows Update King BrianDrab hits 14k!

Congrats, Brian! What an achievement :thumbsup2:
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- Post #5
- Sep 13, 2017
- Forum: The Lounge

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