Spyware

Scans your computer for malicious software (Malware) including Trojan Horses, Dialers, Worms, Spyware, Adware and more.

clipped from www.darkreading.com Who Invented the Firewall? The list of firewall ‘inventors’ is large and controversial. Who’s really the firewall’s daddy?

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New service compliments the company's client-side software and provides filtering of e-mail for viruses, spyware, phishing and unwanted images.

clipped from www.darwinawards.com The Laptop Still Works! 2007 Darwin Award RUNNER UP Confirmed True by Darwin (26 February 2007, California) 29-year-old Oscar was driving on Highway 99 near Yuba City, when his Honda Accord crossed into oncoming traffic and collided with a Hummer. The occupants of the Hummer were not seriously injured. California Highway Patrol officers found Oscar’s laptop still running, and plugged into the car’s cigarette lighter. Investigators believe that he was using it when his car crossed the center line.

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Comodo’s award winning Firewall Pro (V 3.0) approaches nearly 40,000 installations each day, due to its ability to prevent viruses, spyware, malware, rootkits and trojans.

A recently published Microsoft patent application should send shivers down the spines of those already paranoid about companies’ employee-monitorning capabilities — and once the technology in question is developed, companies will gain access to those shivers to trigger a little heart-to-heart with the spine owners’ managers. Patent Office after an 18-month filing period, describes a monitoring system that would enable computers to wirelessly pick up on a user’s heart rate, galvanic skin response, brain signals, body temperature, facial movements and expressions, blood pressure, and respiration rate. Although the sense of this sentient system would seem to be to provide nefarious means for employers to spy on employees, the patent describes a more empathic rationale. Detecting frustration by mapping biorhythmic changes against profiles corresponding to employee’s weight, age, and health, the system would gently nudge managers to conduct a quick, how-are-we-doing-today pop in — certain to ensure further off-chart trajectories for the monitored biorhythms that alerted the system in the first place. According to The Times, one such expert on data protection law, Hugh Tomlinson at Matrix Chambers, said, “This system involves intrusions into every single aspect of the lives of the employees. More Spyware News

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