NebuAd, The Reincarnation of Gator Adware?

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 ...

Zango Removal Instruction - Spyware Alert

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Zango is an adware which monitors the web sites and URLs that you visit, and generates popup adverstiments every few minutes. Instruction to remove Zango from your pc 1. Go to Start > Settings > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs 2. Find Zango on the list 4. Click the Change/Remove button 5. Check ...

What Is Pagejacking? Preventing Pagejacking

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 ...

Trojan Adware Hiding in MP3s, McAfee Says

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 ...