The number of companies trading the personal preferences and surfing habits of online shoppers is increasing dramatically. A Privada spokeswoman told Silicon News: "We make it clear to subscribers that we can monitor their online activities if...
Some adware programs monitor users' surfing habits and report back aggregate data to their parent companies; others simply serve up ads displayed inside the software program. Security experts say AOL could be helping itself by arming subscribers...
To my mind it is time to derive and define a 'killer bot' capable of sniffing out and neutralising offending bots, viruses, worms, Trojan horses, spyware and spam programs. The fight against viruses, worms, Trojan horses and other digital pests may...
Typically, spyware generates pop-up ads or keeps track of people's web surfing. Consumers are not always aware of the dangers of such threats as spyware, viruses and "phishing". Just as spyware is something that we have to nip down today, we have...
In fact, the only way users can be protected against such threats is to ensure spyware doesn't exist on their computers. Companies should all have anti-spyware protection in place on all machines but users must also realise the threat posed by...
Computer viruses, worms or Trojan horses plagued 84 per cent of respondents, 80 per cent reported spyware trouble, and 32.9 per cent said attackers were probing their systems using network port scans.