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Were hotel guests really trapped in their rooms by ransomware? Does anti-virus increase your attack surface so much that it's not worth running at all? And 11% of people on the internet are running ad blockers, says company which blocks ad blockers.
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Computer security veterans Graham Cluley, Vanja Svajcer and Carole Theriault chit-chat about the world of online privacy and computer security.
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Special Guest: Vanja Švajcer.
Links:
- Hotel guests locked in their rooms by ransomware? It doesn't make sense
- Disable Your Antivirus Software (Except Microsoft's)
- It might be time to stop using antivirus
- Google Chrome engineer says Windows Defender "the only well behaved AV"
- 500 publishers were hacked through anti-ad block tool PageFair
- News media move to ban ad blockers from websites
- Encryption and Other Tricks Are Making Malvertising Harder to Hunt
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