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360 Total Security Saves Users From Crypto-Mining Malware - mothered - 05-13-2018
Greetings everyone,
There's a lot of users (myself Inclusive), who do not run an AV and solely rely on common sense & good judgement to protect our systems whilst navigating online. The following article necessitates the act of having an AV actively monitoring a given device.
Quote:360 Total Security Center released a blog post stating that they had received some information about a malware infection which will use the victim’s computer to mine cryptocurrency.
The malware enters the victim’s computer after installing the application One System Care. The malware then infects the computer with a cryptocurrency miner in which DNS settings will be altered and ads will be displayed. It will also have constant updates by creating a PowerShell script which will hide the malware from the systems scheduled tasks. The miner will then proceed to mine cryptocurrency.
The malware affected over a million computers and 360 total security received various complaints from customers. The company took care of the problem and saved all the computers. They also reminded customers to enable/update the new antivirus software to protect themselves from future viruses
Source.
RE: 360 Total Security Saves Users From Crypto-Mining Malware - Satan - 05-13-2018
Quote:The OneSystemCare Parties do not warrant: (1) that the Website, Software, the Software functions or any Content will be uninterrupted or free of errors or omissions; (2) that defects will be corrected; (3) that all unnecessary files and startup items will be removed; (4) that following use of our services, there will be any improvement in the system; (5) that the Software or the servers hosting them are free of viruses or other harmful code; or (6) that the Software or information available through the Software will continue to be available. The OneSystemCare Parties shall have no liability for any such issues.
From their own website, not even sure if they could be held liable for any damages it would cause systems, given its in their own terms.
Also the program even looks like a fake AV. If people aren't able to stick with one that has been known to be a safe and usable antivirus, that's their own fault for being infected.
Common sense would have prevented all of this just fine, unfortunately there's short supply of that on the internet nowadays.
RE: 360 Total Security Saves Users From Crypto-Mining Malware - mothered - 05-14-2018
(05-13-2018, 05:23 PM)Satan Wrote:Quote:The OneSystemCare Parties do not warrant: (1) that the Website, Software, the Software functions or any Content will be uninterrupted or free of errors or omissions; (2) that defects will be corrected; (3) that all unnecessary files and startup items will be removed; (4) that following use of our services, there will be any improvement in the system; (5) that the Software or the servers hosting them are free of viruses or other harmful code; or (6) that the Software or information available through the Software will continue to be available. The OneSystemCare Parties shall have no liability for any such issues.
From their own website, not even sure if they could be held liable for any damages it would cause systems, given its in their own terms.
Bear In mind, to protect themselves from litigation and the like, every registered entity of this nature has a disclaimer.
It doesn't necessarily denote It's competency (or lack of).