Archive for November, 2005

  




EULAscan – for those who hate reading deadly boring license agreements

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005
The Importance of EULA, an article shedding light on questionable end user license agreements was recently published on 2-Spyware. com. It explains the real meaning and importance of EULA and provides interesting excerpts from the licenses of popular legitimate software, rogue spyware removers and infamous adware parasites. More...

Microsoft extends the expiration date of Windows Defender

Saturday, November 26th, 2005
A few days ago, Microsoft released an updated version of its powerful anti-spyware program Windows Defender (formerly known as Microsoft AntiSpyware). The recent release, build 1. 0. More...

Windows OneCare is going beta

Thursday, November 24th, 2005
Windows OneCare, Microsoft’s new integrated anti-spyware and antivirus security suite will be going beta. The product, which was already tested by the chosen ones, will be opened to a broader circle of Microsoft beta testers “very soon�. The exact date still remains unknown, but according to reports of some reputable analysts Windows OneCare Beta will be released next week. More...

The Sober worm causes this year’s largest epidemic

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005
A recently discovered variant of the infamous Sober worm gone wild on this Monday and Tuesday. According to reputable Internet security experts the new parasite has already infected thousands of computers worldwide and caused this year’s largest epidemic, which vast scale surprised analysts and virus researchers. MessageLabs, one of the leading providers of e-mail messaging security software and services, reported it had already stopped over three millions of Sober e-mails. More...

Viruses and spyware to compromise popular desktop and security-related software

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005
The analysis of recently discovered security vulnerabilities, common hacker attacks, virus and spyware infections that took place last year revealed an absolutely new trend – more and more parasites are being designed to exploit not the operating system’s flaws, but bugs found in popular desktop and security-related software including antiviruses, backup utilities, database products, media players and other widely used programs installed to the almost every system. Since Microsoft began to feel concern about Windows protection and with the improvement of its program of regular online updates spyware makers and virus authors started to target their pests on popular third-party applications, as today it is much more difficult to create a threat, which would rapidly spread by penetrating up-to-date systems. This year everyone had a chance to notice this. More...

Virus authors and spyware makers join forces

Friday, November 18th, 2005
Yesterday, Technology Review, one of the oldest technology magazines in the world, published an interesting article “Spying on Spyware� presenting new facts on parasites. According to this good read and the latest “State of Spyware� quarterly report released by Webroot Software, the reputable anti-spyware company, virus authors and infamous spyware makers consolidate efforts on creating new rapidly spreading and hard to get rid of spyware parasites based on advanced viral technologies. And this is not the distant future. More...

TRUSTe to legitimize adware and trackware downloads

Thursday, November 17th, 2005
Yesterday, TRUSTe together with well-known sponsors including Yahoo!, AOL, CNET Networks, Computer Associates, and Verizon announced a new program to certify downloadable software. The Trusted Download Program is aimed on creating a whitelist of software products that have passed certification. These applications can then be legally distributed through popular web sites, online services and other willing resources. More...

Why Claria’s advertising-supported programs are still called parasites

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005
Probably every 2-Spyware. com visitor knows about Claria Corporation, its advertising-supported products and services. If you don’t, try to recall some of these “magic� words: GAIN, DashBar, ScreenScenes, PrecisionTime, etc. More...

Splogs and comment spam – new sources of spyware

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
Time tells that some spammers, advertisers and spyware makers are quite good psychologists with really fertile minds. They are always the first to discover and introduce new original and yet effective techniques of unsolicited advertising and parasite distribution. They trick thousands of users into visiting fraudulent web resources, downloading and even buying useless programs. More...

The importance of EULA

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
With the advent of very first stable enough releases of Windows operating system, the installation of various programs have reached nearly the most basic level ever. The necessity of editing numerous configuration files, altering system settings or installing specific memory drivers in order to properly setup a favorite text editor or computer game have irreversibly vanished. Today all you have to do (leastwise in most cases) is download a program from the Internet, double-click on a downloaded file, click the button, another button, yet another button and, voila, the installation is finished, your program is ready to use. More...




Spreading the knowledge:

It is very hard to fight Computer parasites alone in internet space. If you have a website we would be more than happy if you would help us to spread the knowledge about latest threats. You can help your visitors to manage their Computer system manually without aditional expences. Knowledge is the power, we just need to spread it.
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