What you find here
- Removal guides. One page per threat: what it is, how it got in, what it changes on your computer or phone, and a removal plan.
- Scams and scam e-mails. How current scams work, with the actual texts that readers received.
- Is it safe? A check of a website or domain against the abuse.ch URLhaus list of malware sites, with the domain's registration date.
- Files and processes. Whether a Windows file is genuine, where it must live and who imitates it, with a check of your own copy that runs in your browser, for example dllhost.exe.
- Software reviews. Reviews of security and repair programs. Some of them carry affiliate links; see the affiliate disclosure.
- News. Security news that matters to ordinary users.
- Live data. Exploited now (vulnerabilities that attackers are using, from CISA), Data breaches (from Have I Been Pwned) and Browser updates. Every number on these pages names its source and the time it was last refreshed; the full list is on Data sources and methods.
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2-Spyware is operated and published by 3T Media FZE, Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. Company details and the contact e-mail are on Contact us. Articles are signed by their authors; each author has a page listing their work.
2-Spyware is not affiliated with CISA, NIST, Have I Been Pwned, abuse.ch, MITRE, Microsoft or any other data provider we quote. They are named as sources.
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