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Has Barclays stamped out fraud with PINsentry?
News Earlier this month Barclays offered all its online customers free Kaspersky security software, including parental controls as well as protection from spam, adware, spyware and viruses. Security from A to Z [18 Jul 2008]
Barclays gives online users free security software
News The package from Kaspersky protects from adware, spyware, viruses and provides parental control and spam filters. Barclays Bank is to offer its two million online customers free security software. Barclays already offers its online banking... [01 Jul 2008]
Vista security under scrutiny, again
News Of the infections, 74 per cent were adware, while 17 per cent were Trojan infections. Security vendor PC Tools has released more research to back up its claim that Vista is far from immune to infection. [21 May 2008]
Security experts criticise Phorm
News As the only publicly traded adware company, listed on the London Stock Exchange with Fidelity and a series of other blue-chip shareholders, and the former chairman of Microsoft UK as our chairman, we unilaterally discontinued our entire revenue... [18 Apr 2008]
Webcast: Does Your Anti-virus REALLY Protect You Against Spyware?
White Paper So it stands to reason that anti-virus tools that were designed first and foremost to scan for viruses and worms won't be as effective at detecting adware and spyware. Check out this TechRepublic Webcast, now available on demand, to hear Sunbelt... [13 Dec 2007]
WiscNet Elects 8e6 to Lead Wisconsin Schools, Government, and Public Services With a Hardware Filtering Solution
White Paper The company also wanted to reduce exposure to legal liability due to inappropriate Web content and minimize security threats from malware, spyware, and adware. The company wanted to block unacceptable Web sites and protect both students and... [20 Jun 2007]
Dot-gov safest domain around, says McAfee
News A site with a red flag typically delivers malicious software such as adware, spyware or viruses; a yellow site may deliver pop-ups. The security company tested millions of websites in 265 top-level domains, representing more than 95 per cent of the... [13 Mar 2007]
Virus alert as Storm Worm rages on
News Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos, said the company expected more attacks over the coming days, and said the botnet would most likely be hired out for spamming and adware propagation, or be sold to extortionists to launch... [23 Jan 2007]
MySpace worm goes phishing
News Miscreants have exploited the popularity of the website before to steal personal information and spread adware. The video is a rigged QuickTime file that exploits a MySpace vulnerability and support for JavaScript in Apple's embedded media player... [05 Dec 2006]
Alert over Spybot worm
News Additionally, hackers often steal the victim's data and install spyware and adware on PCs, to earn a kickback from the spyware or adware maker. The security company said: "We are seeing a spike in traffic on port 2967 with activity only in the dot... [30 Nov 2006]
Mac OS X gets an unwelcome visitor
News The program, dubbed iAdware by the Finnish security company, is possibly the first example of adware for Macs. A new adware program silently installs on Mac OS X systems and opens web browser windows, according to F-Secure. [28 Nov 2006]
Adware company hit with $3m fine
News Adware company Zango has been fined $3m by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for the methods it has employed to download adware onto users' computers. The adware distributor agreed to settle with the FTC after the watchdog claimed Zango "used... [07 Nov 2006]
Security group issues emergency IE patch
News In many cases, the attacks install spyware, adware and remote control software on victims' PCs. A group of security professionals has created a third-party fix for a recently discovered Internet Explorer flaw that's increasingly being used in cyber... [25 Sep 2006]
Dodgy porn sites tap IE flaw
News In one case, a malicious website used the exploit to install "epic loads of adware", according to Sunbelt. The number of attacks may rise quickly, according to web security company Websense. Miscreants are using an unpatched security bug in... [20 Sep 2006]
Video nasty, adware nastier say experts of Guardian.co.uk ad
News Call it gruesome (a screenshot is shown below) but one security expert has dubbed it "controversial" for another reason - because it links through to a website, run by a company called Zango, where users are able to download adware applications... [14 Aug 2006]
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