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Some folks in Congress have been pushing for anti-spyware laws for a few years now without much luck. It seems to get through the House and then get shot down in the Senate. Once again, a bill has sailed through the House, and the backers are hopefully it will get Senate approval this time around. [...]
The Anti-Spyware Coalition (ASC) has finalized its landmark “best practices” for the anti-spyware community. The document provides a critical tool to consumers and software developers. ASC published a draft version of the best practices document for comment at the end of January. The version issued today reflects numerous refinements made after the comment period [...]
On Thursday, the anti-spyware bill–which has twice passed the U.S. House of Representatives only to be rejected by the Senate–got its third hearing in the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection. The bill, whose full title is the “Securely Protect Yourself Against Cyber Trespass Act,” would prohibit any software that takes control of [...]
There were more than a few references to the third time being a charm today as a House panel rolled out anti-spyware legislation that the U.S. House has twice passed only to be twice rejected by the Senate. The Spy Act (H.R. 964) would require an opt-in, notice and consent regime for legal software — [...]
Spyware researcher Ben Edelman sclick here for articleays Cingular Wireless and Travelocity are indirectly supporting the adware and spyware industry with ad dollars despite efforts by both companies to cut ties with that form of advertising. Edelman claims that ads for both companies are being displayed by adware companies whose software programs are installed on [...]
The 40-year-old substitute teacher from Windham was convicted two months ago of exposing seventh-graders to pornography on a classroom computer. She argues that she was a victim of a pop-up loop. Anyone who has ever clicked on an innocent-looking icon and started a stream of smutty images that won’t stop, like a drunken flasher in [...]
A virus is software that can reproduce itself — simple! There’s no similar definition for spyware. In fact, we use it as a catch-all term for many kinds of malicious software. Adware programs pop up ads in your face, sometimes even when you don’t have a browser open. Adware may also watch your online activities, [...]
E-mail has become as essential to today’s business as the telephone. But along with its utility, there has grown a shadowy part of the Internet that takes great pleasure in disrupting businesses and causing untold misery. E-mail is the Internet gateway to your business. You use it to communicate with outside sales staff and to [...]
Whenever a program gets wide distribution there are bound to be some users who, rightly or wrongly, feel it has caused them pain. Sometimes it’s a case of post hoc ergo propter hoc (Latin for “the hog was here, so the hog did it”). Other times there really is a problem, perhaps due to an [...]
PandaLabs reported registering a 62 per cent annual increase in rootkit activity in 2006, and says the outlook for 2007 is bleak. The firm reckons amount of malicious code using rootkit techniques is already up 25 per cent on last year and predicts an overall increase this year of around 40 per cent. According to [...]
The greatest threat to your privacy may not come from cookies, spyware or Web sites tracking and analyzing your Web surfing habits. Instead, it may come from search engines, which collect and store records of your searches. Search engines track your search terms, the sites you visit as a result of your searches, the times [...]