The Goverment has launched an initiative to tackle invasive software that covertly gathers information about PC users, writes Richard Barry Are advertisements appearing on your screen? Are pop-ups ...

Wired on Friday: For years, far-seeing firms such as IBM and Sun have predicted that academics and researchers might harness spare processor time on idle computers across the internet to process ...

According to one study, spyware has infiltrated millions of computers. Spyware can be as innocuous as a program that monitors the Web pages you visit, or as aggressive as a program that can hijack ...

You've outfitted your computer with anti-virus software and bought a spam filter for unwanted email. Just when you thought it was safe to go out on the Internet again, another cyber-pest is baring its ...

The word 'virus' gets tossed around a lot. Here's what actually counts, what to watch for, and how to stay two clicks ahead ...

Adware is software that serves advertisements to you, either within your web browser or in other programs.

A computer virus is bad. But trying to fix it with unverified anti-virus programs may bring even worse disaster to users. Many anti-virus programs sold on the market are themselves acting as viruses ...

According to security analysts at MicroWorld Technologies, PornPass Manager promises to give unsuspecting victims free access to many adult Web sites and ezines from the shady side of World Wide Web.

Your computer has been acting strange lately — running slower than usual, showing weird pop-ups, or behaving in ways that make you suspicious something isn’t right. These could be signs that malware, ...

Music seekers should be cautious when visiting the FastMP3Search.com.ar Web site, according to the Center for Democracy and Technology and StopBadware.org. The antispyware watchdogs say the MP3 search ...

US-based Panda Software said the program called DigiKeyGen generates passwords that supposedly enable users to access to pornographic websites. At the same time, a spyware program and an alleged ...

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