Archive for June, 2006

A few days ago, Brian Johnson, a computer user from Los Angeles, sued Microsoft over its Windows Genuine Advantage tool calling it a spyware program. A class action lawsuit filed in U. S. More...

On April, 2006, we wrote about YapBrowser, a malicious and pretty useless web browser that serves unsolicited, aggressive advertisements, redirects the user to undesirable web sites, modifies essential system settings, etc. This parasitical web browser, not a trojan or corrupt anti-spyware, was quite an unusual threat back then. However, it seems that we may see more similar products, more web browsers that offer "safer Internet". More...

In March, 2006, we wrote about Claria's decision to quit adware business in next few months and switch to a new product called PersonalWeb. As it turned out, Claria really stops distributing and supporting its infamous adware. According to the official statement, the corporation "will stop displaying GAIN pop-up and other ads on July 1, 2006 and will stop supporting all GAIN Supported Software on October 1, 2006. More...

According to various researches, statistics and rumors, up to 80-90 percent of all computers worldwide are being infected with viruses, spyware parasites or different kinds of malware. Nothing new here. It must only be noted that a larger part of all the infections occur because of users' carelessness, ignorance and lack of experience. More...

Recently, the 2-Spyware. com research team has retested all major anti-spyware programs including well-known, popular products and completely new applications, which have appeared only this year. Updated anti-spyware comparison table is the result of this hard work. More...

SpyAxe, Spyware Strike, Spy Falcon, Spyware Quake, Spyware Sheriff. These are probably the most widely spread rogue spyware removers on the Internet. As you already should know, each of them is illegally distributed with the help of dangerous parasites, malicious advertisements and certain exploits. More...

On Wednesday, two infamous adware companies 180solutions and Hotbar announced that they have merged into a new business called Zango. According to security and marketing experts, Zango is now the largest adware company on the Internet. Well, mergers aren’t something unusual in the business world. More...

Malicious applications installing trojans and spyware, but masquerading as purportedly useful and popular programs, are spreading rapidly these days. We already wrote about Emcodec, Stream Video Codec, fake key generators, etc. This time we want to present you another similar piece of software discovered by anti-spyware experts of Sunbelt Software, one of the leading security software companies. More...

In April, we wrote about Emcodec (eMedia Codec) and Vcodec - fake codecs for Windows Media Player. These useful looking applications were actually malicious trojans designed to trick inexperienced users into infecting their systems with widely spread parasites like SpywareQuake or SpyFalcon. All this time, we were receiving numerous reports from people around the globe who have been hit by fake codec infections. More...