Court Orders Spyware Operator to Pay $4M

A federal court has ordered a man who was at the center of the nation's first "spyware" case to give up $4 million in ill-gotten gains.

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Spitzer Sues 'Spyware' Co. Over Pop-Up Ads

New York's attorney general sued another Internet pop-up advertising company Tuesday, accusing it of secretly installing malicious programs on personal computers and sending ads through "spyware" that is already installed.

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Watchdog Group Releases Software Report

A corporate-backed watchdog group that monitors software for deceptive and abusive practices on Wednesday named a widely used file-sharing program and three other applications as violators of its guidelines.

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Hacked Ad Seen on MySpace Served Spyware to a Million

An online banner advertisement that ran on MySpace.com and other sites over the past week used a Windows security flaw to infect more than a million users with spyware when people merely browsed the sites with unpatched versions of Windows

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Adware Vendor Tries To Dance Around Sneaky MySpace Installs

Earlier this week, we noted that adware/spyware vendor Zango (formed out of the merger of two widely disliked adware firms) apparently had someone trying to convince MySpace users to add videos to their site that also just so happened to install some of their adware.

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Is WGA Windows Genuine Advantage spyware?

Of course WGA is spyware. I got it on my computer. I deleted the WGA files. In fact since I stopped it downloading stuff from Microsoft it's been much more stable! I don't like pre-installed software.

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The Ultimate RootKit. It's Invisible!

The Ultimate RootKit. It's Invisible! Now what?

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Adware pushed on MySpace

The spyware slobs are at it again

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The Plot To Hijack Your Computer

Just be smart when you surf. Free surfing software with pop-up ads could cripple your hard drive.

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Spyware developers net huge profits, outrage

A nice long write-up about Direct Revenue, a spyware company that's gotten itself into legal hot water in New York.

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Mac Install-Base is 16%

I love this.

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Building a Botnet Empire in Two Days

A real world example of how easy it is to persuade people to run an executable file and create your very own Botnet

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Who's Watching the Boys? (Part 6, Updated)

Excerpt: Imagine: in one hand, you hold cold pizza or your favorite caffeine-loaded cola, while with the other, you command a Christian militia battling the forces of the AntiChrist. Times Square is ablaze with video billboards and piled high with the bodies of New Yorkers.

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Malware Installed by LiveJournal Ad

Over the last few days an advertiser used an ad to install the ErrorSafe malware that tried to trick people into believing they had a fault on the computer that needs them to purchase a fix.

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Religious video game leaves spyware behind

"The video game Left Behind seemed destined to tear a giant fiery swath of controversy through the digital landscape.

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Rumor(?): Left Behind Game Infected With Spyware

A group tracking religious rights activities says the Christian game Left Behind is wall-to-wall spyware. Game play and ad viewing will be tracked once the title is installed on PCs. The software can't be deleted or removed.

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InfectMyPC.com Launches Search for Saftest Operating System

Which operating system is the most secure? Windows, Linux or Mac? Jim Kukral, creator of is going to find out by pitting two PC's and a Macintosh computer against each other in the ultimate battle to see which one will survive the longest under delibera …

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Anti-SPAM, Anti-Phishing and Anti-Viruses Techniques

A discussion of the major junk mail problems and solutions to them. Provides links to more extensive information and vendors providing solutions (including open source products).

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Porn-Surfing Oregon Worker Exposes 2,200 Taxpayer IDs

The identities included Social Security numbers, names, and addresses, and were transmitted to an unknown hacker by the keylogging Trojan horse that was on a PC in the state agency where the employee has been working.

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Net poses dangers for soccer fans

-- Following your favourite football team in the World Cup via the net has its dangers, research shows. Many websites associated with teams playing in the tournament are infested with spyware and adware found security firm McAfee.

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Microsoft: Zombies most prevalent Windows threat

More than 60 percent of compromised PCs scanned by Microsoft were found to be running malicious bot software

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A talk with David Moll of Webroot.

A recently opportunity to talk with David Moll the CEO of Webroot. Webroot is the creator of such programs as SpySweeper, and Windows Washer.

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Anti-SPAM Techniques: Reputation Control

You thought there was only the credit reputation? Now introducting reputation for internet users.

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Help is at hand for web security

If you take your net safety seriously, you will probably have anti-virus and a firewall and perhaps even an anti-spam program to stop the malicious software and messages getting at your home PC.

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Virus holds files for ransom

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Ballmer stymied by malware

"He lumped the thing back to Microsoft's headquarters and turned it over to a team of top engineers, who spent several days on the machine, finding it infected with more than 100 pieces of malware, some of which were nearly impossible to eradicate."

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Bogus Microsoft Update Hides Keylogger Trojan

Security experts issued a warning today about a newly intercepted spyware program called DigiKeyGen, which purports to give free access to pornographic Web content, but in fact blackmails unwitting users who have downloaded it.

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Junk Mail Flavours: Phishing

Phishing is a social engineering showcase. Just as you thought SPAM was the worst thing that could have happened to email...

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