Spyware



June 5, 2008

Leaked Report: ISP Secretly Added Spy Code to Web Sessions, Crashing Browsers (Wired News)

Filed under: Spyware News — Yahoo! News Search Results for spyware @ 5:16 pm
A leaked report on a trial of ISP eavesdropping and advertising technology demonstrates that monkeying around with web traffic to increase ISP's profits can cause users to wonder if they have spyware on their computers.

More Laws, Collaboration Required for Online Safety (PC World via Yahoo! News)

Filed under: Spyware News — Yahoo! News Search Results for spyware @ 1:50 pm
Experts discussed ways to improve online safety and better prevent cybercrime at a security conference in Seattle.

NRTC Offers Members Comprehensive Internet Security Services and Advanced Computer Support (Broadcast Newsroom)

Filed under: Spyware News — Yahoo! News Search Results for spyware @ 11:45 am
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa & HERNDON, Va., BUSINESS WIRE -- Today, the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC) announced that it has signed a master reseller agreement with SecurityCoverage, Inc. to offer NRTC members managed, guaranteed computer services for residential and business Internet subscribers.

Hong Kong Tops McAfee’s Riskiest Web Domains Chart (E-Commerce Times)

Filed under: Spyware News — Yahoo! News Search Results for spyware @ 10:48 am
The Hong Kong domain (.hk) is the riskiest Internet destination for Web surfers, according to a McAfee report released Wednesday. Overall, the security firm looked at 265 domains for a variety of unwanted behaviors, and ranked the 74 most heavily trafficked top-level domains.

Yahoo inks InstallShield deal to help propagate toolbar (CNET)

Filed under: Spyware News — Yahoo! News Search Results for spyware @ 8:50 am
Partnership with Acresso Software makes it easier for 71,000 software organizations using the software installer to bundle Yahoo Toolbar for Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers.

If they are so harmful, why are they added?

Filed under: Spyware News — Doug Woodall @ 8:44 am
Im sorry, couldnt resist this post.
Is it in the best interest of big business to kill us off?
Or in the big scheme of profit vs consumer, maybe it does not matter.
clipped from health.msn.com
12 Food Additives to Avoid
Whoever coined the term “food additives” had it all wrong. Including something new in a food doesn’t always add up to more, at least when it comes to your health. Many studies that test the safety of additives are based on animal trials. It is difficult to deduce whether the results of an animal study equate to human health, though many of these studies show that the additives could be cancer-causing. Here, 12 additives to subtract from your diet.
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Protecting the web-surfing public

Filed under: Spyware News — Doug Woodall @ 8:19 am
Save the diag url in your favs for when you suspect a unsafe site.
I checked my site, came out clean and spiffy.
clipped from wiki.ittoolbox.com
Google Safe Browsing Diagnostic Page (268 views)

Google’s Safe Browsing Diagnostic Page has been introduced in response to an increased effort by Yahoo and McAfee, the security company, to provide this for Yahoo surfers, to secure Web search engine results. Google has introduced this feature to provide Web masters comprehensive information on sites listed as malicious, thereby protecting the web-surfing public even further and protect the web-surfer from sites with spam, spyware, adware and other malicious software that can infect and damage a user’s PC.

To use the new tool, a site URL is added to the end of this URL
http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=
and the information is provided to the user.

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German government approves plod-spyware law (The Register)

Filed under: Spyware News — Yahoo! News Search Results for spyware @ 7:55 am
Uncharted territory The German government yesterday passed a controversial anti-terror law that would grant police the power to monitor private residences, telephones and computers.…

Bad weather a threat to PCs (Baltimore Sun)

Filed under: Spyware News — Yahoo! News Search Results for spyware @ 6:57 am
Power surges and blackouts from summer thunderstorms often can be a bigger threat than attacks of viruses or spyware Mike Himowitz: Power surges and blackouts from summer thunderstorms often can be a bigger danger than attacks of viruses or spyware.

Student impersonates ex-girlfriend to ‘ruin life’ (The Red and Black)

Filed under: Spyware News — Yahoo! News Search Results for spyware @ 2:19 am
A University student said he would ruin his ex-girlfriend's life. He monitored her computer and impersonated her on Myspace. Jared Wolny, 24, was arrested and charged with 32 felony counts - 14 computer theft, 14 computer invasion of privacy, two prohibited copying spyware onto a computer, computer forgery and identity theft - according to arrest warrants signed May 24.
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