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Washington state cracks downThe alleged supplier of some of the net's most hated malware titles has been sued by Washington state's attorney general.…

Washington state cracks down The alleged supplier of some of the net's most hated malware titles has been sued by Washington state's attorney general.…

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clipped from franchiseinformation8320.blog247.co.za How Computer Viruses Work and How to Protect your Computer It is true that computer viruses are dangerous. Anyone who has lost vital information in their computers because of a computer virus will know how big a damage it can cause. But computer viruses are not these insidiously little pieces of code that could wreak havoc on the world. If you know what to do when you get a virus in your computer then you can definitely limit, if not totally stop, the damage it can cause.

There's a software product coming that has the potential to demote spyware from a security priority to an afterthought: Windows Vista.

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 ...

Instead of merely sending me a reminder to renew my one-year subscription, PC Tools took the liberty of renewing it for me and charging my credit card. If the reader had “agreed” to the renewal in a PC Tools EULA, he wasn’t aware of it. In fact, I would need to sign up for an account on the PC Tools website in order to change my renewal preferences. And if my e-mail address had changed in the past year, I would not have known what this strange charge was on my credit card bill, if indeed I’d even have noticed it at all. So what do you think — does the reader have the right to be outraged at PC Tools for its automatically renewing his subscription? Or, like the credit card rep told him, should he just now accept the fact that this is the norm? More Spyware News

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Hackers used Trojan horse to steal bank account information from unsuspecting users

Mar 25 -- Mi5 Networks Inc., a web security gateway company, announced Monday major software enhancement to its Webgate line of high-speed appliances, which provide filtering of malicious URLs(Universal Resource Locator), spyware, viruses, and inbound/outbound botnet communications.