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Were hotel guests really trapped in their rooms by ransomware? Does anti-virus increase your attack surface so much that it's not worth running at all? And 11% of people on the internet are running ad blockers, says company which blocks ad blockers. Oh, and we have a new theme tune... Computer security veterans Graham Cluley, Vanja Svajcer and Carole Theriault chit-chat about the world of online privacy and computer security. Follow the show on Twitter at @SmashinSecurity, or http://www.smashingsecurity.com/ (visit our website) for more episodes. Remember: Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app, to catch all of the episodes as they go live. Thanks for listening! Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and rude language. Special Guest: Vanja Švajcer. https://www.patreon.com/smashingsecurity (Support Smashing Security) Links: https://www.grahamcluley.com/hotel-guests-locked-rooms-ransomware-doesnt-make-sense/ (Hotel guests locked in their rooms by ransomware? It doesn't make sense) https://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/01/disable-your-antivirus-software-except.html (Disable Your Antivirus Software (Except Microsoft's)) https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/01/antivirus-is-bad/ (It might be time to stop using antivirus) https://www.onmsft.com/news/google-chrome-engineer-says-windows-defender-the-only-well-behaved-av (Google Chrome engineer says Windows Defender "the only well behaved AV") https://digiday.com/uk/pagefair-hack/ (500 publishers were hacked through anti-ad block tool PageFair) https://www.ft.com/content/abf110aa-00b0-11e6-99cb-83242733f755 (News media move to ban ad blockers from websites) https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qkjp8d/encryption-and-other-tricks-are-making-malvertising-harder-to-hunt (Encryption and Other Tricks Are Making Malvertising Harder to Hunt) https://www.smashingsecurity.com/store (Smashing Security merchandise (t-shirts, mugs, stickers and stuff))