Archive for the ‘Adware’ Category
Monday, May 12th, 2008
Web surfing offers many different kinds of experience – the useful and the redundant, the profitable and the idle, the regular and the bizarre. And certainly one of the strangest experiences is when you try to visit a familiar page and suddenly find yourself on a completely different one, related ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Are you afraid of ghosts? If yes, then chances are that you'll be afraid of Linux viruses too, because there is an inherent similarity between them. Neither of them exists. In that sense, this article is rather similar to a ghost story – it is about something that sounds sinister ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
Anyone who downloaded the Vietnamese language pack for Firefox 2 needs to run an anti-spyware and anti-virus scan, then disable the pack for now. Mozilla warned yesterday that all versions of that language pack downloaded from its servers since Feb. 18, 2008, were infected with pop-up ad serving software.
Window Snyder, ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Adware pushers have found a new way to trick you into downloading their annoying products: fake MP3 files.
On Tuesday, security vendor McAfee reported that it's seen a huge spike in fake MP3 files spreading on peer-to-peer networks. Although the files have names that make them look like audio recordings, they're ...
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Zango's high-profile lawsuit against anti-spyware company Kaspersky Lab is "akin to a cat burglar suing the alarm company," Kaspersky's law firm argued to a federal appellate court.
In papers filed this week with the 9th Circuit, Kaspersky said that Zango has no grounds to sue the security company for removing Zango's ...
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