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Wednesday 9 April 2014

Trend Micro File Harvesting

Going back a year or two we blogged about Microsoft's SmartScreen filter sending potentially sensitive file information to Microsoft's servers who download files after they've been downloaded by Internet Explorer.  If you're putting super-secret-file.zip on a server for someone you probably don't want anyone else coming along and hoovering that up!

We've recently become aware that some versions of Trend antivirus products do exactly the same..