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Don’t Think Spyware is Really a Problem?

If you don’t think that spyware is really a problem, you must either be using a Mac or Unix machine, or not connected to the Internet. WebRoot has just announced that their database of spyware has exceeded 100,000 unique traces of spyware!: “Combined Efforts of Dedicated In-House Threat Research Team…

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Spyware and Greynets a Huge Problem for Enterprise

Here’s a very interesting study having to do with spyware, grey nets, and the corporate infrastucture. A greynet is made up of unauthorized Internet applications on a network. Wikipedia, which says it far more eloquently than can I, explains that “a grey net is an elusive networked computer application that…

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Google Wins Rights to Typos

This just in: Google wins rights to typos. Seriously. According to their recent press release, the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) has issued a ruling giving to Google the rights to the Internet domain names “googkle.com”, “ghoogle.com”, “gfoogle.com” and “gooigle.com”. Google had filed a complaint “asserting legal rights to the Web…

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TrustSoft’s SpyKiller Scam Scans Canned with CAN-SPAM

The Federal Trade Commission has announced that it has received a restraining order against and frozen the assets of TrustSoft and their SpyKiller program, a program which, the FTC says, was nothing more than a scam. According to the FTC, users who visited the SpyKiller website were offered a free…

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Corporate Espionage: International Giants Implicated in Israeli Industrial Spy Ring

Talk about spyware versus spyware. Authorities in Isreal have arrested dozens of people, including high level executives of multinational corporations, in what increasingly is developing into the Internet Trojan spyware custerfluck of the year. Only on the Internet can a Trojan horse disgorge its contents in several places at once,…

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The Time I Spend with My Daughter Removing Spyware is Very Precious

“Sure, I could get a Mac, but the time I spend with my daughter removing spyware is very precious.” A great line, already being attributed to Intel CEO Paul Otellini, but actually penned by Good Morning Silicon Valley’s John Paczkowski on the GMSV blog. However Paczkowski was reporting on words…

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How to Get Rid of Internet Cookies

For some reason we have had a lot of searches this week asking how to get rid of Internet cookies. It’s really quite easy, but to make it even easier, we are going to cover it for you here.

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Federal Anti Spyware Law to Become a Reality

The nation is one step closer to having a Federal anti-spyware law, and all odds point to it becoming a reality before the year is out. At this very moment the House is working with two proposed anti-spyware laws, I-SPY (the Internet Spyware Prevention Act of 2005), and the SPY…

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New Internet Explorer Attack by “Integrated Search Technologies” Works Even if IE is Closed!

A new type of attack on Internet Explorer has been discovered this week, and this attack works even if IE is closed! The way that it works is that a user visits an infected site, is given a pop-up window asking them to install an applet from Integrated Search Technologies,…

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Spouse vs. Spouse: Spanked for Spying with Spector Spyware

Using spyware to spy on your spouse’s activities, even to gather evidence for an upcoming divorce, is not ok. In fact, it’s against the law.

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MS Windows Anti-Spyware Disabled by Spyware Trojan

Security firm Sophos is reporting today that a new spyware Trojan, BankAsh-A, is specifically targeting Microsoft’s new anti-spyware, and very effectively so, it would seem. Once having disabled the anti-spyware, it sets about stealing passwords and other vital information, which it reports back to the mothership via ftp, and keeps…

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Is Microsoft’s Anti-Spyware Really a Bootlegged Windows “Gotcha!”?

Microsoft’s spyware program is one of the first to use the new Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) process of determining whether your version of Windows is legitimate or pirated.

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Spyware Hiding in Online Media Files

As if online downloaders don’t have enough to worry about (rightly or wrongly), now they have to worry about spyware being buried within the media files they download. I don’t think this is what Marshall McLuhan had in mind. According to a report in InformationWeek, hackers are taking advantage of…

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Microsoft Offers Free Anti-Spyware to Windows Users

Consider it an act of contrition, largesse, or just good business sense, but Microsoft is making available its new anti-spyware software free to Windows users. Having acquired anti-spyware maker Giant Company last month, it was anticipated that Microsoft would enfold a spyware fighting product into its offerings, but that it…

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Spam King Sanford Wallace Comes In from the Cold

The real Spam King is Sanford Wallace, who has been around in one form or another for well over a decade. It was Wallace’s CyberPromotions against which many a spam lawyer first cut their spam litigation teeth.