Spyware

Hackers are paying top dollar on international blackmarkets for computers from Australia that have been unknowingly hijacked and infected with spyware.

Microsoft has confirmed plans to bundle anti-spyware protection into Windows Vista , a move that is sure to raise eyebrows among competitors and possibly antitrust regulators.

Researchers from a little-known security software company named Sunbelt Software have seemingly uncovered a criminal identity theft ring of massive proportions . According to one of their employees, Alex Eckelberry, during the course of one of their recent investigations into a particular Spyware application - rumored to be called CoolWebSearch - they've discovered that the personal information ...

Microsoft has once again stirred up a hornets nest in the open-source community, this time approaching the OSDL (Open Source Development Labs) to work with it on a joint, independent research project to do some facts-based analysis of Linux and Windows.

clipped from andi-hardianto.blogspot.com How To: Remove a worm virus from your computer Even using the best anti-virus, it’s a good idea to train the virus detector between your ears to recognize potential worms and avoid being tricked into activating them. But it’s easy to be fooled, with the end result that you have a worm on your computer sending copies of itself to every address known to you.

Microsoft has apologised for serving malware via its websites and Windows Live Messenger software. APC reader Jackie Murphy reported the problem: "With Microsoft launching Vista along with their Defender software to protect users from viruses and spyware, it seems therefore to be an oxymoron that they have started to putting paid changing banner advertisements for malware, on the popular MSN ...

The last time I wrote to The Times in response to a Harlan Coben article — about soccer snacks, in 2006 — I vehemently disagreed with him. If your child is on hard drugs and sleeping with a dealer, as was the daughter of Harlan Coben’s friend, you’re probably not paying enough attention to your kid. A much simpler solution to monitoring a child’s behavior online is to keep computers out of bedrooms, and put them in common areas of the house. If the computers are in the living room, then the rest of the family is available for homework help and discussion. If we spy on our kids, especially in the absence of any evidence of misbehavior or dangerous behavior, aren’t we teaching them that it’s acceptable for an authority to spy on those in its care simply for their own good? More Spyware News

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clipped from www.online-tech-tips.com Browse the Internet safely using MyWOT MyWOT is another free program that has a rating for millions of websites and that tries to keep you safe from Internet scams, shady online vendors, spam, spyware, and viruses. It never hurts to have more than one of these programs running at the same time, you never know when one service might have a website flagged before the other one does.

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