The owners of AdultFriendFinder.com were accused of pushing the ads through spyware that was often installed without consumers’ knowledge, the FTC said in a complaint set to be filed Thursday in federal court.
Victims who had never even visited sexually explicit sites would suddenly find themselves face to face with full-screen pornographic ads after typing innocuous [...]

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Security expert F-Secure has discovered several Christmas card malware that is doing the rounds of the internet throughout the world. The links that are set in an email are cloaked and point to a fake Yahoo greeting card website, run along with American Greetings.
The site asks the user to click the UPLS present in the [...]

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As you may have read, a new piece of OS X malware has been discovered. Intego has named this malware the OSX.RSPlug.A Trojan Horse. Note that this malware is not a virus—it can’t self-propagate from one machine to another. It is, however, definitely malicious, and it’s packaged in a well-designed trojan horse  wrapper.
According to Intego, [...]

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The third part in this series of dangers to your computer is about adware, it is probably the least dangerous of the three so far to your computer, but it may just be the most annoying.
Adware or advertising-supported software is any software package which automatically plays, displays, or downloads advertising material to a computer after [...]

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Continuing with the theme I wrote about yesterday I thought I would now explain what spyware is so that you will be able to tell the difference.
Spyware is computer software that is installed surreptitiously on a personal computer to intercept or take partial control over the user’s interaction with the computer, without the user’s informed [...]

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I have had a few people recently email me and ask me what exactly Malware is, and how bad is it. Here is a brief explanation as what Malware is and to the second question - Yes, it can be very harmful.
Malware is software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without the owner’s [...]

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Apple Mac computers, long touted for their resilience to online attacks, are becoming increasingly vulnerable to computer hackers, according to a new report.
Security analysts detected the first piece of malicious code to specifically target Apple computers last year and say the number of malicious programmes has increased dramatically in recent months.
The rising security threat could [...]

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The UK now receives 20 billion spam emails a day, roughly one sixth of the daily global total, filtering company IronPort has said.
Latest spam and virus end-of-year trends and prediction report has found 2007 spam levels have increased 100 per cent on last year’s volumes and now makes up a $200-billion business.
“Just when malware design [...]

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