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White Paper The TechRepublic Real World Guide: Spyware Prevention and Recovery collects proven recommendations for identifying spyware and explores tactics for keeping spyware at bay. [18 May 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Spyware
Cheat Sheet OK, I've seen the Bond films, I know what spyware is. It's easy to get worked up about spyware, but there are a variety of reasons for it being there and a variety of roles it could be performing. It's... [29 Jul 2004]
Spyware infiltrates the ad industry
News Spyware writers are generating $2bn (£1bn) of revenue annually after capturing 25 per cent of the online advertising market, an anti-spyware vendor claimed this week. Research from Webroot found that... [04 May 2005]
Spyware thrives in the corporate space
News The number of companies reporting spyware infestation has increased by just under 50 per cent over the past 12 months, according to a survey released by internet security specialists Websense. According to the annual... [17 May 2006]
Spyware: Know Your Enemy
White Paper Eliot's well-known poem, spyware may be considered to be responsible for a whole host of present-day crimes; but unlike the Mystery Cat, not all spyware is clever enough to leave no trace of its guilt -... [18 Mar 2009]
Spyware/Adware - The Risks
White Paper This paper attempts to describe what adware and spyware are, what effects they can have on a system and what risks are associated with them. Spyware and Adware (S&A) are much more recent and although... [06 Jul 2007]
Help users recognize and defend home networks against spam, spyware, scams, pop-ups and cookies
White Paper This sample chapter, taken from Cisco Press' Home Networking Simplified, helps end users protect their home networks against spam, spyware, pop-ups, scams and cookies. In addition to viruses and worms, users must protect... [25 May 2006]
Spyware sparks user and vendor activity
News Businesses have long known about the need to protect themselves from viruses and hackers but many are now waking up to the pressing need to specifically protect themselves from spyware. As its name suggests,... [22 Nov 2004]
Spyware deluge hits 55 million milestone
News Spyware - and its sibling adware - now appears on a significant portion of PCs. During the first half of 2004, ISP EarthLink and Webroot Software scanned two million consumer systems only to find 55 million instances of... [18 Aug 2004]
Spyware banned under new US law
News The US House of Representatives has voted to restrict some of the most deceptive forms of spyware. The rapid proliferation of spyware has become a common menace to computer users," said California's... [06 Oct 2004]
The Only Way to Permanently Remove Viruses, Spyware, and Malicious Code
White Paper The average computer user is aware of anti-virus and anti-spyware programs, but do they really work at removing the infection? Virus and spyware removal can take many, many hours to complete. If one is... [01 May 2009]
Spyware accounts for 90 per cent of malware
News Around 90 per cent of malware found on both home and corporate PCs is spyware, according to internet security firm Panda Software. CTO Patrick Hinojosa said similar studies had found that around 90 per cent of computers... [01 Apr 2005]
Spyware: A Clear and Present Danger
White Paper The new malware is spyware, but it's not the mere annoyance that first appeared on the scene a decade ago and later became notorious as a system-slowing nuisance. In the past several years, spyware has... [31 Jul 2009]
Spyware: The Latest Trends
White Paper It also highlights an example of emerging spyware that exposes users to the possibility of identity theft, data corruption, and personal profiling. This Trend Micro white paper discusses the latest trends in broadband,... [18 Mar 2009]
Spyware, adware infects BitTorrent downloads
News Adware and spyware makers are using BitTorrent as a new distribution channel. While applications such as Kazaa have long been associated with adware and spyware, BitTorrent has not. Chris Boyd, a... [17 Jun 2005]
