Few things you may not know about Pokémon GO (Pokemon Go 101? Hit here.): Internet security issues including online privacy, malware and many more.
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Or, a valid VPN service or software would help protect your PII from undesired "items".
For those thinking of playing on your smart phone, should give Norton Mobile Security a go, as...
And, for those running a Windows based computer, stay beware of those highly risky sponsored results from Yahoo! and Bing. For example, the following image shows that at least TWO trojan based website has been detected.
Again, APN's Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc., gamingwonderland.com, chose to ride the wave of this incredibly popular game Pokemon Go.
- pokemon-go.exe (sha256, a6a877cb69a0e4aee04ca7aee7f696160966768700e0c01ed85cd59144c228b2)
- Pokemon Go Setup.exe (sha256, ab8899bec61b3edd0a1538f3ec703357d340d1018357e42d12f6c604871d456b)
Detected PUPs were uniblue's PC Mechanic 2016, DriverSupport, War Thunder, Slimware's DriverUpdate, StormFall Age of War, Reimage (Repair) and many more.
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Last but not least, never let the malware in ads turn your system into zombies, easily.
(Source: windowsreport.com)
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