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, May 18th, 2008
One thing is certain. You have to fight spyware, there is no alternative. You cannot leave the issue aside, you cannot say that, “let it stay the way it is.” I mean, you can always say that if you like, but the risk might be a bit too high. You ...
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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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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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