Comments on: ROTW: “Total Security” and Antivirus IS http://blog.webroot.com/2011/04/25/rotw-total-security-and-antivirus-is/ WEBROOT - INSIGHTS INTO THREATS AND TRENDS FROM OUR INTERNET SECURITY EXPERTS Fri, 17 May 2013 20:44:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Rogue of the Week: Antivirus Center « Webroot Threat Blog http://blog.webroot.com/2011/04/25/rotw-total-security-and-antivirus-is/#comment-11422 Tue, 10 May 2011 21:59:57 +0000 http://blog.webroot.com/?p=4277#comment-11422 [...] a .dat extension, located in the Application Data folder of the “All Users” profile. As we’ve written before, no programs should run from the Application Data folder, so anything in that location is [...]

]]> By: Conor http://blog.webroot.com/2011/04/25/rotw-total-security-and-antivirus-is/#comment-10425 Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:20:32 +0000 http://blog.webroot.com/?p=4277#comment-10425 “”"It’s worth mentioning, as well, that there shouldn’t be any programs in the Application Data folder. Legitimate programs usually create folders inside that directory, and maintain data files, logs, and other files they require inside of those folders. Technically speaking, there are two of these folders for a given user account.”"”

Google’s Chrome being one of the big exceptions to this rule

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