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AdwCleaner v6.021

by fr33tux

AdwCleaner v6.021 has been published a few minutes ago. With the development of the CLI release in parallel, this release is considered as a maintenance release, with mostly bugfixes, small detections improvements and new translations. Also, we are making good progresses on the CLI release, if you're interested see more at the bottom of this article !

A quick look at a Russian AdwCleaner fake website

by fr33tux

I have been warned about a potentially malicious website which was distributing AdwCleaner in a archive, along with other software. I was quite intrigued so I decided to take a look.

AdwCleaner 6.000

by fr33tux

Hello there, its been a while since our last blog post about AdwCleaner. The reason is simple: the new release of AdwCleaner, v6.000, is now available for everyone on the official download page!
Thanks to the new code base, it’s considered as a major release which brings countless improvements, bug fixes, and new features. Here are a few important ones:

Renewal of the SSL/TLS certificate

by fr33tux

The current SSL certificate expires in a few days, so it's time to renew it. Here's the signed fingerprint of the new certificate, issued by Gandi.

Comment nous gérons l'augmentation du traffic et des données hébergées sur ToolsLib.

by fr33tux

Chaque jour, nous gérons un traffic entrant et sortant grandissant. Nous sommes passés à l'échelle supérieure la semaine dernière, et ce plus tôt que ce à quoi nous nous attendions, mais les résultats sont là.
Nous voulons donc partager les chiffres, les graphiques accompagnés d'explications sur la façon dont nous gérons ce traffic et cette quantité de données de plus en plus importants.

How do we handle a permanently increasing traffic on ToolsLib.

by fr33tux

Everyday we deal with an increasing traffic, coming from and to ToolsLib. These last weeks have been interesting to follow since we moved to a larger scale a bit earlier than expected.
We want to share some figures, graphs and explanations about how we deal with an important traffic and increasing data quantity on our infrastructure.

Latest improvements from the sysadmin team

by fr33tux

There has been major improvements made by the sysadmin team these last weeks. Even if it's not visible, we want to explain what has been made and what benefit will bring to you.

AdwCleaner : Patch du fichier dnsapi.dll

by fr33tux

Depuis quelques semaines, une nouvelle vague d'infection apparaît. Elle cause les troubles habituels pour un adware : la navigation web est polluée de redirections et de publicités intrusives.
Elle se distingue néanmoins par son mode d'action qui la rend délicate à supprimer : elle modifie un fichier système (utilisé par Microsoft Windows pour la résolution de noms de domaines) afin d'en perturber son fonctionnement et dans le cas présent, de mentir sur les résolutions DNS.
AdwCleaner prend en charge ce type d'infection depuis la version 5.010 publiée le 4 Octobre 2015.

About the downtime of yesterday evening

by fr33tux

There has been an hour-downtime yesterday evening (07/02/15). For transparency reasons, here some explanations about what caused the outage.

AdwCleaner v4.206 : nouveautés

by fr33tux

La version 4.206 d'AdwCleaner a été publiée en début de semaine. Elle apporte plusieurs corrections et améliore les détections par l'ajout d'un nouveau chemin, ainsi que le support des FirewallPolicy.