Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Spybot - Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications. Spyware silently tracks your surfing behavior to create a marketing profile for you that is transmitted without your knowledge to the compilers and sold to advertising companies. If ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
We're excited to tell you that we have improved the scanning for rootkits. Beginning with the first updates in march we have added new anti rootkit plugins for Spybot - Search & Destroy. Apart from that we have also developed a new tool - the RootAlyzer
Rootkits are a technology that ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Newsday is running a piece on bogus spyware applications that mimic successful free applications (like Spybot and AdAware), but either don't work, or worse: install spyware themselves. The article quotes Eric Howes, a BBR security forum regular, who maintains a list of 75 such suspect products, with more being added ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Mike Healan
March 23, 2004
If you've ever been infected with a browser hijacker, you know what an infuriating situation it is. For all intents and purposes, your $3,000 computer is converted into a source of revenue for some fly-by-night web site unable to generate legitimate web traffic. Once ...
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