Our rogue researcher Patrick Jordan was thinking of an upcoming vacation this afternoon and went looking for Caribbean recipes.
Yep. You guessed it: the first site he went to tried to download a rogue called Live Security Suite that’s been around since last May :
We listed it on the GFI Sunbelt Rogue Blog here.
Tom Kelchner
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