Spyware

Washington - When it comes to security and computers, most people think of the well-advertised threats of viruses, spyware, or adware. But the fact is that most of us are more vulnerable to the prying eyes of our neighbours, bosses, friends, or the p...

Presidential hopeful John McCain's self-admitted tech illiteracy makes me nervous.

After admitting to financing a jet-setting lifestyle by stealing the identities of friends and neighbors, 22-year old student Jocelyn Kirsch faces six years behind bars after pleading guilty Monday to aggravated identity theft and other federal crimes.

As England's historic Bletchley Park raises funds to restore buildings used by code-breaking legends such as Alan Turing during World War II, ZDNet.com.au 's sister site CNET News.com is taking a look back at the cryptographic machines that kept vital specialists of the German, American, British, Polish, and Japanese military forces awake at night.

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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 ...

The Registry Sentinel, also known as TheRegistrySentinel, is a rogue registry cleaner. TheRegistrySentinel is designed to identify and fix registry errors, but instead it displays false positives to trick the user into believing there's a malware infection. The Registry Sentinel comes bundled with another rogue anti-spyware program called The Web Sentinel, which together they form a group of anti-spyware program that is under the name Your Web Safe. Once you're infected with either of the rogue anti-spyware programs (TheRegistrySentinel, The Web Sentinel or Your Web Safe), it installs the Locker.exe file on the user's computer which displays a purchase window that will not close until the user purchases the program. The Locker.exe file disables typical keyboard commands like Alt+Tab, Ctrl+Alt+Delete, and others. The only way you can remove TheRegistrySentinel, along with The Web Sentinel and Your Web Safe, is by pressing Ctrl+N to open a new browser window and begin a scan with an antivirus or anti-spyware program to clean the computer. If you download The Registry Sentinel, it will start a scan that displays false positives on your computer. It is strongly recommended to remove The Registry Sentinel from your system without any hesitation.

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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 ...