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New form of Nigerian scam
You have probably seen so-called Nigerian scam e-mails sent by purportedly rich persons, who need to discreetly move money to bank accounts in US, UK or other countries abroad.More
Spam and phishing May 17, 2007
SpyLocked and Spyware Locked updates (2)
We are seeing regular updates of infamous rogues SpyLocked and Spyware Locked.More
Viruses and parasites May 12, 2007
HijackThis acquired by Trend Micro (1)
Trend Micro, one of the leading antivirus and security software companies, acquired HijackThis, probably the most popular tool used in threat analytics and malware removal.More
Anti-spyware software News March 14, 2007
Valentine’s Day patches
On Tuesday, Microsoft released monthly security updates issuing patches to fix 20 vulnerabilities in its most popular software including Windows, Office and even new anti-spyware and antivirus tools.
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News Vulnerabilities February 15, 2007
HpHOSTS ?€“ untrustworthy resource (3)
hpHOSTS is a web site of the community managed hosts file, which is used for blocking access to thousands of malicious web sites.More
Zango ignores legal settlement
Earlier this month, we wrote that Zango, the infamous adware company, has agreed to pay $3 million to settle a suit brought by the FTC alleging that the company used bad practices to install adware to millions of computers around the world without end user knowledge and consent.
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News Spyware related issues November 21, 2006
End of support for Windows XP Service Pack 1
Microsoft ends all support for Windows XP Service Pack 1 today.More
Hacking AIM (2)
"Have you ever wanted to get on your girlfriends, boyfriends, or just a friends AOL Instant Messenger screen name ...More
News Viruses and parasites August 10, 2006
What’s new on 2-Spyware.com – Issue 5, July, 2006
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MySpace - a playground for malware pushers?
New trojan installs itself as a Firefox extension
Ad injection
Parasite removal guides
A sophisticated phish
SpyHeal.More
News What's new August 01, 2006
Ad injection
Ben Edelman, reputable anti-spyware expert, has conducted a research on how Vonage, one of the leading providers of broadband phone service, funds spyware.More
News Spyware related issues Viruses and parasites July 19, 2006
Still using Windows 98 or Windows Me? (2)
Are you still using Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition or Windows Millennium ?More
Webroot’s latest State of Spyware
Webroot, one of the leading anti-spyware companies, released the latest State of Spyware Report recently.More
News Spyware related issues May 14, 2006
YapBrowser – adware and child porn (1)
180solutions, the infamous adware distributor, got in a very unpleasant situation.More
News Spyware related issues April 21, 2006
HijackThis Log Analyzer
We are proud to present you the HijackThis Log Analyzer, our totally new service that will automatically analyze your HijackThis log and provide results immediately after posting the log.More
Critical Internet Explorer vulnerability: attacks started
The day before last, we wrote about new highly critical vulnerability, which affects Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 on fully patched Windows 98, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server systems.More
News Web browsers and vulnerabilities March 25, 2006