Published in May 9th, 2008
Mozilla warned Wednesday that a malicious program inserted adware code into a Firefox plug-in that has been downloaded thousands of times over the past three months. The add-on was a Vietnamese language pack, and though it has been removed from the official Mozilla add-on website, it was undetected until this week. The Firefox 2 Vietnamese [...]
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Published in March 12th, 2008
A Home Office official has made public the contents of an internal analysis fmor the Home Office dealing with the question of whether Phorm’s model for targeted advertising is legal under interception of communications legislation. Trend Micro told The Register: “The nature of Phorm’s monitoring of all user web activity is certainly of some concern, [...]
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Published in February 11th, 2008
Over the weekend, security vendor iDefense reported three specific exploits affecting a fully patched version of Adobe Acrobat and Reader 8.1 running on Windows. In each of the cases, the attacker would need to have the users open a specially crafted PDF file delivered via an e-mail attachment or linked from a Web site. The [...]
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Published in January 9th, 2008
Here is a video example of what happens when you get infected by DollarRevenue;
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Published in January 9th, 2008
Facebook has banned the “Secret Crush” application due to its affiliation with a notorious spyware manufacturer. The social-networking site confirmed the breakup on Monday: “Facebook is committed to user safety and security and, to that end, its Terms of Service for developers explicitly state that applications should not use adware and spyware,” a statement from [...]
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Published in January 8th, 2008
Facebook users are being warned about a new application on the social networking site that contains adware. ‘Secret Crush’ contains a download of the Zango adware program which automatically sends itself to five friends. To find out whom their flame is, users must download a widget, he said. Then, they must invite five other friends [...]
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Published in January 4th, 2008
A new virus that infiltrates Google’s online advertising business and hijacks the ads with a different provide has been detected, Romanian antivirus company BitDefender says. The trojan – dubbed Trojan.Qhost.WU – modifies the infected computers’ hosts file and redirect the Google’s AdSense link “page2.googlesyndication.com” to a different address. The Trojan.Qhost.WU threat works by modifying the [...]
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Published in December 21st, 2007
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 [...]
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Published in December 14th, 2007
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 [...]
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Published in November 16th, 2007
A former security researcher admitted to hijacking a quarter of a million PCs, using spyware to steal bank and PayPal account information, and making money by installing adware on the massive botnet. Security consultant John Schiefer, 26, has agreed to plead guilty to four counts of fraud and wiretap charges. U.S. federal prosecutors claim he [...]
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