Spyware and adware rogues’ gallery

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

The ranks of spyware and adware expand daily, but some take root more often than others. Here are six of the usual suspects. These spyware and adware mischief-makers have taken root on more than their share of hard disks. Symptoms include performance and compatibility problems, not to mention continuous pop-up invasions. 1: ...

There is no anti-spyware silver bullet

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

The spyware threat to enterprise security will increase over the next few years without an enterprise-class tool to prevent it, consulting firm META Group warns. Spyware has both good and bad properties that make it difficult for traditional antivirus software to identify and clean up, leaving only a handful of consumer ...

HijackThis And CWShredder Have Moved

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Heads up for those who link to or recommend HijackThis, CWShredder, the Coolwebsearch Chronicles, or to any other file at http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/. Merijn has his own web site now, located at http://www.merijn.org/. All of his files can now be found there. Here are the most common files accessed on his site. http://www.merijn.org/files/hijackthis.zip http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html http://www.merijn.org/htlogtutorial.html