Spyware

Children often can't put down a mobile phone because there's a never-ending text message conversation going on. RADAR is a program from eAgency Mobile Solutions designed to help parents monitor text messaging but not in a spyware manner, as the phone user is alerted to the software monitoring.

(ARA) - We take the good with the bad: The same technologies that gave us the Internet and unprecedented opportunities have also brought us adware, spyware, viruses, phishing and a growing host of online threats. Malware - malicious software - is more than a nuisance.

"Yes, as a complete suprise it seems that Microsoft has released the final version of their long-time-in-the-making Anti-Spyware program, Windows Defender.

The ad might be caused by spyware on your PC — the very thing Spybot goes after. Q. I have tried to obtain the Spybot Search & Destroy 1.5.2 program that you recommend, but when I go to your Web link, www.startribune.com/a4205 , I keep being prompted to pay $37 for NoAdware version 5.0. What's going on?

(ARA) - We take the good with the bad: The same technologies that gave us the Internet and unprecedented opportunities have also brought us adware, spyware, viruses, phishing and a growing host of online threats. Malware - malicious software - is more than a nuisance.