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by John W. Simek, Vice President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc.

Firefox Users Should Uninstall Mint Cast Software

December 29, 2015

Apparently, some potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) are doing more bad than good. If you are a Firefox user, the advice is to uninstall the applications Mint Cast and its variant Shell&Services. According to Malware Bytes, "Mintcast and its variants are adware applications that install two services on your system and one driver. The driver called WinDivert is (sic) a legitimate one that is also used by other applications as a network packet capture and (re)injection driver." I'm not a big fan of any browser extensions, except for those that have been thoroughly vetted and tested by security professionals.

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