Spotify investigates the possible infection with ‘malware’ of your version free – The Informer.com.see

Technology | 2:43pm | 05-10-16 | Andres Araya

REDACCIÓNELINFORMADOR.COM.SEE.- The well-known music streaming service Spotify would be infecting the computers of their subscribers through the well-known as malware or malicious software that infiltrates your computer and acts autonomously without the user’s knowledge. The alert has jumped only a few hours and have been the own users of the service who have begun to fill the forum official support of claims. Since Spotify is not yet a reaction officer on how to act on the issue, but many affected users, recommended to uninstall the application or, at least, do not run it until you the firm give a solution to the issue. The service managers have only been declared, for the moment, that they are aware of the problem and are investigating it.

By what is known so far, this incident would be affecting only the free version of the service, which offers advertising to its users, and would be precisely these ads the presumed portal of entry for malware. This problem would affect both users of Windows, Mac, and the affected users will begin to discover a strange behaviour on their computers. In particular, refer to the opening without control in the browser page is not requested with harmful content to your computer: "If you have Spotify open, it will open consistently in the browser by default, pages with malware or viruses", explains one of the affected.

even Though as we pointed out there is an official answer for the moment on the part of Spotify, the issue would be affecting millions of users of the free version of the application of music streaming, while the paid users would not be affected. The worst of the matter is that this is not the first time that Spotify lives a similar situation: in 2011, apologized to the users (also the free version), by infecting an unknown number of their computers with malware. What to do in the meantime if you are a user of Spotify Free? It is recommended that, in the first place, not run it or as an additional measure, uninstall it from the computer, and run some antivirus or antimalware to remove it from the computer. Some users are more daring, on the other hand, they claim that with software blocker advertising are not having this problem and continue using the service.