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California’s Tough New Anti-Spyware Law

Happy New Year, Californians! In addition to a brand new year, you’ve got a brand new anti-spyware law! The new law, signed in September by Governor Schwarzenneger, took effect on January 1st, and makes it illegal to install software which takes control of another’s computer without their knowledge, and has…

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AOL Offers New Spam and Virus Resistant Software for New Year

America Online (AOL), one of the largest Internet Service Providers in the United States, if not in the universe, is sticking it to spammers again, this time by offering an updated version of its software which is designed to be more spam, spyware, and virus proof than previous versions. AOL…

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MPAA Contractor Infects Downloader’s Machines with Adware, Spyware

Overpeer, a division of Loudeye, Inc., has been caught putting infected files on peer-to-peer filesharing networks, and putting attractive and likely sounding names on the files in order to induce users to download the files. Thinking that they are downloading their favourite songs or other media files, the users only…

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Spyware: The Top Ten Most Prevalent and Insidious

Webroot, the developers of the Spy Sweeper anti-spyware product, this week released their “Top Ten Unwanted Spyware” list (is any of it actually wanted?) The list was developed based on data obtained in scans done by Webroot, both from their own site, and in conjunction with Earthlink. The top ten…

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Kazaa Has “High Clot Factor”, and is Spyware According to Computer Associates International

Computer Associates International has named Kazaa one of the top “spyware” programs, and in fact is saying that it poses a greater risk than any of the other top five programs on CAI’s spyware list, due to how popular it is. Kazaa claims that it has been downloaded 214 million…

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How to Remove Cookies from Your System for All Browser Types

Cookies. Everyone has them. And everyone wants to know how to get rid of them. While for some browsers it’s fairly obvious and straight-forward, for others it’s not so much. Here’s how to remove cookies from those browsers.

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If You Have a Lexmark Printer, You May Also Have Lexmark Lx_CATS Spyware

Lx_CATS is a Lexmark printer file, installed by Lexmark, which spies on your printer usage and reports back to the Lexmark mother ship.

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New O’Reilly “Spam Kings” Book Exposes the Seamy Underbelly of Spam “Email Marketing” and the Yellow Underbellies of Spammers

Spam Kings takes you on a trip through the world of spam, where you’ll meet all kinds of spammers (and even a few antispammers) and learn what makes them tick (I mean in addition to the crack and coffee).

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The Once and Future King: Sanford Wallace Defends His Crown

Sanford Wallace, the original “Spam King” (sorry, Mr. Richter), is back in the news. Wallace is perhaps best known for the run-ins which he and his company, Cyberpromotions, had with AOL and Compuserve back in the 1990s. At that time both companies sued Wallace for spamming them, and AOL’s victory…