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.: Curing Your Computer of Spyware - 14th Jul 2006
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"Is your computer suddenly behaving erratically? Sluggish performance, more-frequent computer crashes, and a steady stream of pop-up ads can be symptoms of a spyware infection. In an era when people frequently download music, videos, screensavers, and other programs from the Net, spyware infections have grown all too common. At least half of the world's computers have played host to a spyware program at one time or another, computer security firms estimate..."
[BusinessWeek] |
.: Laptop theft exposes Hotels.com customer data - 6th Jun 2006
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"Thousands of Hotels.com customers may have had their personal information exposed after a laptop containing Hotels.com data was stolen from an employee of Ernst & Young, the travel site's auditor..."
[Reuters] |
.: Muscled Up Spyware - 5th Jun 2006
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"As spyware and adware have become increasingly powerful and difficult to remove, developers of anti-spyware programs have added a wider range of functionality to their applications to give users more powerful tools as well as greater control over those tools..."
[Security Pro News] |
.: Spyware infections spreading, security expert says - 5th Jun 2006
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"Spyware programs are increasing in number and growing in sophistication to avoid detection, making it harder to guard against infections and more costly to repair their damage, according to a security expert whose company tracks them on a regular basis..."
[GCN] |
.: Virus levels drop as spyware soars - 2nd Jun 2006
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"As organisations have improved at dealing with the threat of viruses, they have found that spam and spyware are continuing to clog up their systems, according to the latest figures from SoftScan.
However, while releasing this good news, SoftScan warned that "this only demonstrates a change in tactics, not that viruses are on their way out", noting that spam now accounted for 85 percent of all email the company had scanned in May
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[ZDNet] |
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