Malwarebytes offers pirates and duped customers 12 months of its premium antimalware product for free

Malwarebytes, a security company best known for its Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (MBAM) product, has debuted an Amnesty program for Windows users.

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Tip of the Day: How to Reset Your Forgotten Apple ID Password

Master your iPhone and iPad. Sign up here to get our Tip of the Day delivered right to your inbox. The most important thing to any Apple user (besides her iPhone of course!) is an Apple ID.

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What to do if your computer is taken over by ransomware — a form of malware taking over the internet

Ransomware is evolving and that’s bad news for just about everybody except cyber thieves. Ransomware, which is a form of malware, works by either holding your entire computer hostage or by blocking access to all of your files by encrypting them.

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These 8 characters crash Skype, and once they’re in your chat history, the app can’t start

Skype users have discovered a rather nasty bug in the app. Sending the characters “http://:” (without the quotes) crashes Skype, and receiving a message with those characters makes it crash any time you try to sign in again. The bug works as described on Windows, Android, and iOS.

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