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This is also useful for those with limited bandwidth.įile sharing with friends and colleagues can be done using either a public link or via email. The incremental file backup function only uploads parts of a file that have changed. Additionally, turn on the Volume Shadow Copy option to backup files that are locked or in use, although this may decrease speed of backups and increase memory usage. You can adjust how the program utilizes system resources to speed up backups (makes other programs slower) or switch to “light” (slower backups, less system resources consumed). Options for those with weaker PCs and slower connections are a nice touch. You may not, for instance, back up entire applications.įilters can be applied to block files with specified extensions or larger than a certain size.
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Full system backups are not available, so ZipCloud is mainly for your documents, pictures, music, and whatever else is in your user files. Upon initial backup, you can choose which files and folders are downloaded manually or go with the default.
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To update the files on all devices, a backup must be scheduled and performed again, then manually downloaded to other devices. Backup simply means copying files from one location to the other. The sync folder differs from the standard backup in that it always keeps the most updated versions of its files at the ready on all your devices.
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ZipCloud offers a free trial with 1GB of storage space and a 15MB sync folder. It’s easy to see why customers get fed up, especially when ZipCloud isn’t exactly transparent about what is and isn’t included in a plan. Speedier backups? More nickels and dimes. Want to back up external hard drives? That’s more, too. Want hourly backups instead of daily? A couple more. Want a sync folder bigger than 2GB? Tack on a couple bucks per month. Everything that isn’t explicitly listed in the terms for a plan – even the so-called “unlimited” plan at the highest tier – will cost extra. For less than $5 per month, you can have the middle-tier premium plan with 250GB of storage space on as many computers and smartphones as you can fit.īut unless you want to be one of those angry commenters we mentioned, you had best read the fine print. But has the company evolved from the shady sales practices that earned it so much hate? Is it really as bad as they say? How does it compare to our top rated services such as iDrive? We took it for a spin to find out. A Google search for the online cloud backup service will bring up reviews and articles with no shortage of rage in the comments sections. Jerome Segura ( is Senior Security Researcher at Malwarebytes.ZipCloud has a bad reputation.
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This is why you should always install updates from the vendor’s official website to avoid nasty surprises.
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I find it interesting that the bad guys are banking on the fact people are now quite aware of how important it is to apply software updates. However, the executable used to hijack other browsers was (Malwarebytes flags it as ). If you believe you are seeing strange or inappropriate ads on the websites you regularly visit, it wouldn’t hurt checking the extensions installed in your browser and removing the offending ones.įor the record, the rogue Safari extension was not detected by any of the vendors listed in VirusTotal at the time I uploaded it.
With such invasive adverts, cyber-crooks are likely to generate a lot of ‘views’ and even pay per clicks. Online advertising is a billion dollar industry and everybody wants to have a piece of it. It’s easy to guess what the creators of this malicious extension are after. HTTP traffic capture from Fiddler showing ad networks. For example, I visited , a site for children to play games and watch their favorite characters, when all of the sudden a pornographic advertisement was displayed. Shortly after being installed, it will begin to inject very rough advertisements on any website you visit. In Firefox, the add-on is set to auto-update:Ī fake Flash Player update appropriately named FlashPlayer11.safariextz is making the rounds right now. They are shown here in the manifest file:Īnd the actual extension consists of this JavaScript (click to enlarge): It belongs to with Safari developer ID: E728F995AB.Īs for Google Chrome, the extension has very invasive permissions: (Hat tip to Braden Thomas for spotting it). UPDATE (08/16/13): The rogue Flash Player extension for Apple’s Safari was signed with a valid Safari developer ID. I used Fiddler to decrypt the HTTPS communication and reveal the malicious file being downloaded from Google Docs.
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