Tag Archives: spam

Put ’em together for Hitman Pro 3.5

Cheesy name, yes, but I’m going to subscribe when my free trial ends. Because, using the cloud to minimize its load on my hard drive, it did what Spy sweeper, McAfee, and Malwarebytes could not: found and eliminated the rogue rootkit that was diverting all my Google search links to spurious advertising and scam sites.

Which proves, once again, what my angry upset over the Google Redirect “virus” was obscuring: that for every crooked programmer these Innertubes have spawned, there’s at least a dozen enterprising, entrepreneurial good-guy programmers with a cheap and easy solution. Like Hitman Pro.

CNN News Alerts

I knew the first time I got one of these new malware creations in the email that I hadn’t signed up for it because I despise CNN. The second time I read some of the "headlines," stuff designed as grabbers, like the death of an entire major league baseball team in a plane crash. I Googled the item just to be sure, found nothing and spiked the email. Dustbury is getting a lot more of them than I am.