Spyware

Opinion: Did Sears use spyware to secretly track what its customers were doing online?

Sears and Kmart customers who sign up for a new marketing program may be giving up more private information than they'd bargained for, a prominent anti-spyware researcher claims.

On page 10 of 54-page diatribe A Harvard researcher has accused one of America's biggest retailers of sneaking privacy-stealing spyware from ComScore onto customers' machines.…

When you join an online "community," are you joining so that you can interact with like-minded users, or so that companies can track your every move on the Internet? Sears is banking on the latter, despite heavy criticism from security researchers. Read More...

Security researches are criticizing retailer Sears for not adequately describing its efforts to track the behaviors of those who provide the company with their contact information.

Last month we wrote about how Sears and K-mart's websites both were urging people to join a "community," but that community didn't seem like much of a community at all.

A Harvard researcher is criticizing Sears of failing to meet FTC guidelines with marketing software it installs on users' PCs.

Enigma Software Group, Inc. (the "Company") (OTC Bulletin Board: ENGM), a technology and services company that creates and develops Internet Privacy Protection and Computer Security Software and Applications for Internet users, today announced a total of 3,956 new, renewal and third-party subscriptions for the week ending December 30th. This represents an increase of 7.2% from the total of the ...

New A-VSMART(TM) Technology Delivers Proactive Protection Against Viruses, Spyware, Malware, Rootkits and Trojans Jersey City, NJ, December 06, 2007 - In 2007 alone, over $20B will be spent on computer products according to a report by the National Retail Federation's Shop.org and in a move to keep these PCs malware free, Comodo, a leading security company announced the release of its free ...