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Hey MalwareTips community, NoScript, the OG script-blocker that's been hardening browsers since 2005, just dropped version 13.4.911 (Chrome) and 13.2.2 (Firefox) this month, with fixes for Tor Browser compatibility, Android UI tweaks, and better handling of new capabilities like "lazy_load" and x-load fingerprinting mitigations. It's still bundled with Tor Browser, open-source on GitHub, and praised for preemptively nuking XSS, Spectre/Meltdown exploits, and unwanted trackers – but Manifest...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are beginning to roll out updates for Notepad to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels on Windows 11. Notepad (version 11.2510.6.0) In this update, we are introducing two new features—expanded formatting support with tables and streaming results for AI text features. Tables We are expanding lightweight formatting in Notepad with support for tables! You can now easily insert tables in your document to help structure your notes. To get started, look...

Hello Windows Insiders! We appreciate the excitement around the latest Windows handhelds and have heard feedback (and seen the creativity!) from those wanting this experience on more devices. Today, we’re excited to begin previewing a new experience for gaming on Windows 11 PCs. Alongside today’s general availability of full screen experience on more Windows handhelds currently in market, today’s Windows Insider Preview Build 26220.7271 offered to the Dev and Beta Channels expands the Xbox...

Hey MalwareTips community, WOT (mywot.com) is somehow still alive after all these years of drama. Quick 2025 status check: Still has 5M+ users and a giant crowd-sourced database Chrome/Firefox extensions updated for Manifest V3 Now shows “AI-powered” safety scores + phishing/malware warnings before you even visit Added crypto-scam and fake-shop detection (actually decent this year) Free version still works, Premium ($3/mo) removes ads and adds dark-web monitoring But… the reputation...

Hey MalwareTips community, Privacy Badger (EFF’s legendary “learn-as-you-go” tracker blocker) is now over 10 years old.After all the Manifest V3 drama, uBlock Origin dominance, and browsers baking in tracking protection, does anyone here still run it daily? What’s new in the 2025 version: Full Manifest V3 support with declarativeNetRequest + dynamic rules Now blocks link-tracking (ampproject, bc.marfeel, etc.) automatically “Social Widget Replacement” got smarter – replaces...

Hey MalwareTips community, With ISPs logging everything, DoH/DoT now default in Windows 11/Edge/Chrome/Firefox, and encrypted DNS queries jumping 380% this year alone (Cloudflare Radar), the DNS wars are hotter than ever. Your router or PC’s DNS choice is now one of the biggest privacy/security wins (or losses) you can make in 5 minutes. Where are we in late 2025? Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 – still fastest globally, added malicious-domain blocking (1.1.1.2) and family filter (1.1.1.3) Quad9...

Hey MalwareTips community, Browsers are the #1 attack surface for home users (93% of successful infections start there per Verizon DBIR 2025), so extensions have become the new battleground. No more “uBlock Origin and done” – the list exploded this year with AI-powered blockers, script isolators, cookie auto-deleters, and even canvas fingerprint spoofers that actually work. What does your 2025 browser toolbar look like? My current daily stack (Chrome/Edge/Firefox): uBlock Origin (still...

Do you use the "Calibrate display" feature on your system?

More on: https://cybersecuritynews.com/microsoft-investigation-copilot-issue/

Today I discovered that ChatGPT no longer works when WebRTC blocking is enabled in uBlock Origin in my Chrome browser. It is possible to immediately identify the culprit (WebRTC block) because certain characteristic elements are usually missing from the website. Please note the images below: Without webRTC blocking: With webRTC blocking: P.S. So I added the exception for WebRTC in uBo. But in AG it's not necessary.:unsure::unsure::unsure:

Hey MalwareTips parents (and anyone with kids/nephews using the family PC), It’s late 2025 and every paid suite screams “award-winning parental controls!” – but we all know the reality check from a few years ago was brutal (most were easily bypassed by a 12-year-old with YouTube). So where are we now? Have they finally caught up, or are we still better off with dedicated tools? Quick real-world rundown from 2025 tests & parent reports: Norton Family – Still the king: real-time...

Hey MalwareTips community, Ransomware is evolving fast in late 2025 – attacks are down in volume but way more targeted, with average demands now $1.5–2M and recovery costs hitting $1.8M even when you don’t pay (Sophos State of Ransomware 2025 & Coveware Q3).The big selling point for many paid suites is “ransomware rollback / remediation” – supposedly restoring encrypted files from shadow copies or protected backups if the AV fails to block the attack in real time. But how much do home...

Hey MalwareTips community, It’s November 18, 2025, and the old-school advice used to be “never run two real-time AVs – they’ll fight.”But with Windows 11 24H2, Microsoft relaxed that dramatically: Defender now peacefully coexists with most third-party real-time engines (no more automatic disabling). So the real question for home users is: does layering a third-party AV on top of Defender actually give measurable extra protection in 2025, or is it just bloat, false positives, and wasted...

1) Recently, my Microsoft Defender removed a malicious file: AppData\Roaming\secure\QtWebKit4.dll (Trojan:Win32/Wacatac.C!ml) Before migrating to Microsoft Defender, I used Kaspersky Free as my main antivirus and scanned with Malwarebytes Free. 2) The files in the secure folder are dated 08/12/2024. I found a Malwarebytes Free log, and this log shows that a removal occurred on the same day the secure folder was created, 08/12/2024. 3) Are these events interconnected? And why didn't...

"We know we have work to do": Microsoft posts apology, but gets destroyed in the responses Microsoft’s plan to turn Windows into an agentic operating system has been met with massive backlash online. When the Microsoft President of the Windows and Devices division announced the next Microsoft Ignite developer and professionals conference, AI made up the cornerstone of the announcement. Users responded in droves and the general tone was very negative. Many asked Microsoft to focus on the...

Is the Burn_Card_Maker.exe file real malware or a false positive? https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/91c707f73b4a0d13d4ad0906ea9cee5925c2fa59c7f54c1d88375c81238d7d1f https://hybrid-analysis.com/sample/91c707f73b4a0d13d4ad0906ea9cee5925c2fa59c7f54c1d88375c81238d7d1f https://opentip.kaspersky.com/91C707F73B4A0D13D4AD0906EA9CEE5925C2FA59C7F54C1D88375C81238D7D1F/results?tab=upload

Hey guys, been sitting here for hours figuring out how to enable that bs. Every other feature is enabled but I cant seem to get this one working. Can anybody help please? I am really desperate right now. 🫠 Thank you in advance!