Archive for May, 2006

According to a new study conducted by Ben Edelman, reputable anti-spyware expert, and Hannah Rosenbaum, McAfee SiteAdvisor research analyst, searching the web can be dangerous. Search results, especially the sponsored ones, from popular search engines often contain links to spyware and malware sites. During the study, the experts used almost 1,400 popular keywords to find out whether organic and sponsored search results can lead to malicious Internet resources. More...

Webroot, one of the leading anti-spyware companies, released the latest State of Spyware Report recently. This quarterly document is probably the best read shedding light on actual spyware rates, parasite prevalence and new infection trends. We think that it would be interesting for you to find out some of the facts from the latest State of Spyware issue. More...

We have received a letter from Oemtec, makers of SpySpotter, the infamous corrupt anti-spyware program that uses false positives. In this letter Oemtec states that the 2-Spyware. com project is posting false information regarding the SpySpotter product. More...

Ransomware is a type of malicious software that threatens to do something terrible (delete user sensitive information, destroy the entire system, encrypt vital data or steal confidential documents) and demands the victim to pay up. If the victim pays the ransom, the author of ransomware completely removes the threat and restores victim information. Leastwise promises to do so. More...

According to a recent study from Panda Software, a well-known antivirus developer, a larger part of all parasites is made only to make money for their authors. 40% of all malware detected by the company's online scanner was spyware, 17% was made up by parasite downloaders and trojans stealing user bank account details and other sensitive information. 8% of the total was made by dialers that connect victim computers to the Internet by dialing premium rate phone numbers. More...

It looks like there is no end to numerous, rapidly spreading SpyAxe clones - Spyware Strike, Spy Falcon, Spyware Quake, and now - Spyware Sheriff. The latest rogue is very similar to its predecessors. It is the same poor performance product unable to protect user privacy and system security. More...

News Ransomware There is no 100% safe software YapBrowser - adware and child porn Beware of fake codecs New virus targets Windows and Linux New York sues major spyware company New Internet Explorer vulnerability Infamous parasites New variant of SpyFalcon, a trojan Ransom, a trojan Kidala. c, a worm Kidala. b, a worm Kidala, a worm New variant of SpywareQuake, a trojan Emcodec, a trojan Secefa. More...