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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission gets a judgment against a company accused of distributing spyware and adware onto people's computers.

PCMag compared Ubuntu, Windows, and Mac OS X to one another . "Now that the major OSs all run on Intel chips, the playing field is pretty leveled out. We compared the heavy hitters in an eight-point test to find who wins the OS battle."

MonaRonaDona is a browser hijacker that is used to promote rogue anti-spyware Unigray. MonaRonaDona may hijack your browser and download malware applications onto your computer without your consent and approval. In order to trick users into buying rogue anti-spyware applications it promotes, MonaRonaDona uses scare tactics by displaying misleading pop-up messages of non-existent privacy and security threats. Both MonaRonaDona and the products it promotes are not to be trusted. MonaRonaDona fake warning message: "Hi, My name is MonaRonaDona. I am a Virus & I am here to Wreck Your PC. If you observe strange behavior with your PC, like program windows disappearing etc, it"s me who is doing all this. I was created as a protest against the Human Rights Violation being observed throughout the world & the very purpose of my existence is to remind & stress the world to respect humanity."

Secureinvites.com is a corrupt website that is disguised as a trustworthy security advisor. Secureinvites.com is created by hackers to profit from gullible computer users by offering fake anti-spyware applications. Secureinvites.com may prove dangerous to your computer, since it can install spyware onto your computer without your consent and authorization.

A long-time trusted source recently alerted me that some inappropriate advertisements were running on Neopets.com, a Web site full of addictive Macromedia Flash games aimed at pre-teens. Surprisingly, the curators of Neopets.com -- major media conglomerate Viacom -- are disavowing responsibility for the racy ads, saying they did not exist on their network and instead were the result of adware or ...

Websense, Inc. today announced that AutomationDirect, a well-recognized name in the industrial automation market, has deployed Websense® Web Security Suite(TM) software to protect the organization from business-crippling spyware that was causing the company to lose more than 20 employee hours per week to computer clean up efforts.

Why is an ISP charging customers for access then hampering their access with the same bogus annoyances which so many “websites” of questionable worth use to inundate visiting computers? It will ‘read’ all your web traffic, looking for keywords that will be used to call up targeted ads, in real time, from Phorm’s system, to be displayed to you personally on sites you subsequently visit that have signed up with Phorm to sell their advertising space. You can choose to opt-out from receiving personalised ads, on a per browser basis, however, all of your data stream, in both directions, will still be analysed but won’t be used to serve you ads. I switched to talktalk a few weeks ago, and whilst I would not be happy knowing my details were stored on a database somewhere I have not noticed any increase in pop-up ads. More Spyware News

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Code Green Networks, a leading provider of data loss prevention solutions for protecting customer data and safeguarding intellectual property, today announced a partnership with IronPort® Systems, a Cisco business unit and leading provider of enterprise spam, virus and spyware protection, to integrate IronPort PXE encryption technology into its CI-1500 and CI-750 content inspection appliances ...

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