Archive for November, 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...

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, 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...