When I first started working with computers a little over ten years ago I had never heard about viruses.
You may have heard of a company called Shavlik. They were recently named as one of the fastest growing technology companies in North America.
The Federal Trade Commission has shut down three companies that tricked bloggers into placing code on their sites that delivered spyware to user machines.
The Federal Trade Commission has filed a lawsuit against a company whose product redirected Google and Yahoo searches.
New anti-spyware tools will help protect members of AOL from a whole variety of malware online.
MySearch Bar and other plugins by Ask Jeeves can arrive from third parties on a computer system without asking for permission first.
Search engine Ask Jeeves appears to be having a world of problems with some of its software. Apparently, a number of anti-spyware firms have flagged Jeeves for some of the downloading techniques and distribution channels it chooses for its toolbars and other software.
Lots more web sites have cropped up, for the sole purpose of hosting spyware and infecting computers.
The usefulness of defining spyware benefits both the makers of anti-spyware products as well as the spyware coders.
The Anti-Spyware Coalition (ASC), a team of tech firms and software vendors, is seeking to nail down a universal definition of spyware to better prepare a counterattack-and they need your help.
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