Spyware

Facebook has banned the Secret Crush application due to its affiliation with a notorious spyware manufacturer.

Two online policies have landed U.S. retailer Sears in hot water with privacy advocates.Sears' opt-in market research program and its Web site to assist homeowners keep up with their Sears appliance purchases caught the eye of privacy advocates, who have criticized the company for putting so-called spyware on customers' computers when they log on, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Tuesday.The ...

Two online policies have landed U.S. retailer Sears in hot water with privacy advocates.Sears' opt-in market research program and its Web site to assist homeowners keep up with their Sears appliance purchases caught the eye of privacy advocates, who have criticized the company for putting so-called spyware on customers' computers when they log on, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Tuesday.The ...

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clipped from blog.washingtonpost.com Important Update For Ad-Aware SE Users Microsoft Windows users who rely on Ad-Aware SE Personal (the free version) to protect their machines from spyware and adware should be aware that Lavasoft, the company that makes the popular program, stopped shipping updates for the software after Dec. 31.

PrivacyControl is one of the latest rogue anti-spyware programs, particularly designed to clean history. The biggest difference from other similar programs that this one must be downloaded and installed manually onto your system. However, PrivacyControl displays false positives and uses deceptive advertising techniques in order to goad you into purchasing the fake full version of PrivacyControl.

Starsdoor is an annoying adware application that produces excessive pop-up advertisements to emerge every 5 minutes. Starsdoor may get inside your system when downloaded through various P2P file sharing programs masqueraded as a serial code cracker. Strasdoor is not a useful program in any aspect and shouldn"t remain on your system.

Microsoft Windows users who rely on Ad-Aware SE Personal (the free version) to protect their machines from spyware and adware should be aware that Lavasoft , the company that makes the popular program, stopped shipping updates for the software after Dec. It also runs Ad-Aware as an ever-present Windows service , which strikes me as a curious decision, since my impression is that most Ad-Aware users use the program for on-demand scans rather than any kind of real-time detection. For those folks who feel that dealing with a limited user account is too much of a pain (some applications simply don’t work well under limited user accounts without some serious tweaking), a similar and less restrictive solution is to use ” Drop My Rights ,” a program that helps you set up your most commonly used applications so that they cannot be used as a conduit to change system settings or install additional software. For some of those local desktop apps that don’t like limited users, we’ve used the right-click command “Run As” or used the freeware “Raise My Rights” to get them to perform. More Spyware News

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