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Yesterday, Marcin Kleczynski of MalwareBytes posted on the MalwareBytes forum to announce that they uncovered without a doubt that IOBit has been stealing their definitions database, cracked the encryption and used it as their own.

This is unacceptable and nothing IOBit can say will refute what Marcin and his team have uncovered. If you host a website that mirrors IOBit's software, you should remove it. These people steal the hard work of others and pretend it is their own.

Here is the link to the thread.

Since Sony has started shipping Chinese PCs with the Green Dam filtering software early, I'm making this post a bit early instead of putting it up on July 1st.

If you live in China and are buying a new computer, or have friends or family who are, remember this: You are not legally required to keep Green Dam on your computer. Computer shops are required by law to install it, but you are free to uninstall it.

More information on the Green Dam filtering software and its problems, see this analysis by Wolchok, Yao, and Halderman.

I've updated the links on the Downloads section, removed dead ones etc and pointed any wrong ones to the right domain. If anything is still out of order, please let me know. :)

For those interested, I've also updated my blog at Blogger.com with some automatic, dynamic content like my Twitter and GReader feeds. It's about time I start tying all those Web 3.0 thingys together instead of having 6 separate pages to update.

All website content has been migrated to the domain Merijn.nu. Both the domain and hosting are under my control so earlier problems with expiring domains and disappearing owners should be fixed. :)

The static mirror at merijn.castlecops.com will stay online until.. well, until Paul Laudanski takes it down, I guess. His help is very much appreciated.

For some reason, my FTP account to the website has been disabled, so I am unable to update files or pages on this domain. For the time being, I will post new versions of programs on my CastleCops upload page. A working mirror of the website is available at merijn.castlecops.com but I don't have FTP access there either (yet).

BFU v1.12 is available. Changes:

• Fixed HostsFileReset
• FileWrite now inserts a linebreak first before appending data to files
• FileWrite, HostsFileAddLine, SystemMsgBox, SystemRestart now accept \t and \n when applicable (see the BFU manual for details)

*Update*: With a lot of help from cnm and Sam, I now have full access to the server and database once again. A round of applause to the both of them, thanks so much. Also thanks to the people who offered alternative hosting without me even asking. :)

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