spyware

I have mentioned previously about using online security scanners to check your system periodically. I do this for several reasons. First of all I do not believe that any one product can provide 100% perfect protection all of the time. Second, using more than one program gives me a feeling that my system really, really [...]

The FTC had charged Sears and K Mart with knowingly deceiving consumers by placing spyware on their systems to track their every move. Sears Holding Company attracted consumers by paying them $10 to download and install the software on their computers. The software was to track their online browser only, but it was later learned [...]

Microsoft has been trying for several years to try and persuade consumer to use their anti-virus/spyware combo software. They first tried offering protection to us with their OneCare software products. I used OneCare while it was in beta testing. It appeared to work properly and also offered some other features such as backup/restore in addition [...]

Microsoft is planning a new security offering code name ‘morro’, which the software giant hopes with curb the tide of malware infecting our systems. In addition Microsoft will stop making the paid subscription version of Windows Live OneCare effective June 30, 2009.  According to the press release Microsoft states:
“Customers around the world have told us [...]

The Attorney General for the State of Washington, along with Microsoft, Corp., have joined forces to take their fight directly to spyware and scareware purveyors. In a joint venture they are hoping that the A.G. will be able to sue those businesses that use scare tactics such as illicit warnings to solicit consumers to use [...]

Over at IT Wire they have a story about fake news articles allegedly from CNN or MSNBC, are being spoofed in an attempt to spread malware and spyware onto computer systems. The article states that the amount of fake news spam is about 5 million articles per hour. But is that a lot of spam? [...]

There is a new version of SpywareBlaster available for free download that includes the following fixes:

Mozilla Firefox 3 support
Fixed problems updating in some instances
Fixed errors on load
Fixed errors when attempting to enable/disable Firefox protection
Fixed hang on some Vista machines when trying to update
Fixed improper detection of AutoUpdate enabled status on some Vista machines
Fixed occasional error [...]

Last night my wife and I were having a pleasant dinner with a good friend of ours, when the subject of spyware popped into the conversion. He mentioned that he had downloaded a product off of the Internet that suggested his system had over 6,000 infections. I looked at him at first thinking he had [...]

I received [Lockergnome] Pirillo’s Picks newsletter dated 2-15-08 and what do I see listed at the top? A super deal on all three of Uniblue’s products, each at only $14.95 apiece. What I found interesting is that this special pricing is the cheapest I have seen on these fine products and I wanted to [...]