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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. P is for Passwords [18 Jul 2008]

Security experts criticise Phorm

News F-Secure said 121Media was responsible for developing pieces of adware, including Apropos. On Thursday, Phorm denied that Apropos had contained a rootkit but admitted that it did contain code to hide itself from other... [18 Apr 2008]

Surfers still too careless with ID, says BT

News Check all files on every computer that is connected to the internet at least once a week using anti-spyware and adware applications. Change your passwords regularly and avoid standard... [15 Feb 2006]

Zombies are after your ID

News While many of the networks had been used to hit other bot nets with denial-of-service attacks, others had been used to gather sensitive identity information and install adware and spyware, a practice that is increasing,... [15 Mar 2005]

What's on your PC? Spyware, Trojans and diallers

News According to CA's findings the average user has 33 traces of adware and four traces of spyware on their machine - all of which may be capable of relaying sensitive information about the user to a remote third party. [01 Mar 2005]

Spyware bill raises cookie fears

News Labels such as spyware and adware cut a wide swath, with many grey areas that can spark disagreements among software makers, consumers and security experts over legitimate and illegitimate practices. A spokeswoman for... [04 Feb 2005]

Spammer's back with spyware

Comment Reports of widespread adware and spyware infection have increased dramatically, in part as consumers have increasingly realized that their computer crashes and slowdowns were being caused by surreptitious advertising... [12 Oct 2004]

Microsoft to offer anti-spyware, says Gates

News Although progress is being made against spam and viruses, Gates said the adware and malware problem is getting worse. I have had malware, [adware], that crap" on some home machines, he said. They pick... [04 Oct 2004]

Cheat Sheet: Spyware

Cheat Sheet The most contentious area is adware's ability to report back to its originator and share information about you with third parties. It's likely such behaviour is a result of 'adware' - spyware's... [29 Jul 2004]

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