ID Theft – How to Avoid Identity Theft

July 8, 2008

By Spyware News (www.spywarenews.org) – It’s fairly easy to protect yourself against identity theft when you’re online, since all you have to do is keep your softwares patched and up to date, install a good antivirus and anti spyware program, and to never visit untrustworthy sites as well as click links on untrustworthy emails. However, [...]

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Computer Spying to Catch a Cheating Spouse

July 7, 2008

By Spyware News (www.spywarenews.org) – A lot of relationships, particularly those with men or women who have weak bonds with each other, tend to get ruined or at least marred with discrete online affairs. If you have glaring suspicions about the online habits of your partner, you may want to try spouse computer spying first, [...]

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How to Remove? Spyware Quake Removal Step

July 4, 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. Once the pop up is clicked, [...]

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NebuAd, The Reincarnation of Gator Adware?

July 1, 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 distribution a few years ago. [...]

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Zango Lays Off A Third Of Current Workforce

June 30, 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 focus, hot on the heels [...]

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High School Hackers Use Trojan Program To Change Their Grades

June 29, 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 Tesoro High School started [...]

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FTC Wants Spyware Distributors Pays

June 15, 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 give up their ill-gotten [...]

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Internet Explorer vs Opera vs Mozilla Firefox

June 11, 2008

When you want to surf the net, you click on the blue ‘e’ on you desktop. That’s all there is to it. Why should you have to choose a browser? And is there a choice at all? Isn’t the word ‘browser’ synonymous with ‘InternetExplorer’? With the recent spate of browser-related security incidents all over the [...]

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TypePad AntiSpam for Blog

May 30, 2008

Six Apart is launching a new free open source product into beta called TypePad AntiSpam. While the product is new, the technology behind it has been used by Six Apart since May 2007 on millions of hosted TypePad blogs. What’s TypePad AntiSpam? A free, open source system powered by TypePad for blocking comment spam on [...]

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Wi-Fi Hotspots Vulnerable to Computer Hackers

May 30, 2008

The FBI recently issued an alert warning that wireless Internet networks, often called Wi-Fi hotspots, are more vulnerable to hackers than most users probably realize. Often the security of the free public networks is low and this setting make it very easy for a hacker working from anywhere around the world to use computer codes [...]

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