Archive for the ‘Spyware’ Category
Friday, July 4th, 2008
By Spyware News (www.spywarenews.org) - SpywareQuake is part of a new breed of adware/scam hybrids that act as trojans and infect systems via email spam or website scripts. Once infected, SpywareQuake bombs the user of the computer with fake security notification pop-ups, telling them that their computer is infected. ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
By Spyware News (www.spywarenews.org) - It would seem that NebuAd, the behavioral targeted advertising protocol used by some Internet Service Providers, is basically like a version of Gator that works at the ISP level. For those of you too young to remember, Gator is one of the frontrunners of spyware/adware ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
By Spyware News - According to a recent press release by Zango, the famous adware company has recently terminated the employment of 68 out of the 200 plus people that comprise its total workforce. The lay offs were done as a means to streamline and narrow the company's goals and ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
By Spyware News www.spywarenews.org - A couple of teens from Tesoro High School in Orange County, California, are being charged with multiple felony charges after being caught of hacking into their school's computer network in order to infect it with spyware designed to monitor and change their grades.
The teachers at ...
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
The Federal Trade Commission today told the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation that the power to invoke civil penalties on spyware distributors would aid in deterrence.
Eileen Harrington, deputy director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, said enforcement options, such as seeking consumer redress or making the operators ...
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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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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Aside from viruses and worms, spyware is one of the biggest threats to security and privacy in the internet and this threat is becoming worse. In a study by America Online and the National Cyber-Security Alliance, it was found out that almost 80% of the users surveyed have computers infected ...
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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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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
This latest popular version AVG free security software now incorporates protection against spyware. AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0 is intended for personal and non-commercial use on single computers running Windows 2000, XP or Vista.
What is not included in the free version?
The AVG Free product does not include the proactive safe-surfing ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Sunbelt Software, a leading provider of Windows security and management software, today announced the top ten most prevalent spyware and malware threats for the month of April.
1. Trojan.FakeAlert ...
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