If you’ve used the Softonic download site recently, you might want to be aware of Intego’s blog on Softonic Download Site Briefly Delivers Trojan Adware Installer.
Lysa Myers reports on “…packages [that] purported to install a toolbar… related to ChatZum. Even if the user declined the offer to install … the package would silently install an Internet plug-in called Zako, and would change the browser’s search option to point to ChatZum’s site.”
David Harley CITP FBCS CISSP
Small Blue-Green World
ESET Senior Research Fellow
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