Spyware and its discontents
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Gmail and its discontents
Gmail and its discontents
04/26/2004 06:05 AMCNET News.com's Declan McCullagh says the reaction to Google's new
e-mail services highlights a tactical divide within the ranks of
Internet activists on how best to respond.
Videogaming and its discontents
Videogaming and its discontents
12/23/2003 12:25 AMSalon Dec 23 2003 0:13AM ET
Comdex and its discontents
Comdex and its discontents
06/23/2004 03:36 PMIt's taking the year off, leaving behind a legacy of storied product
launches and crass commercialism.
Science and its discontents
Science and its discontents
06/15/2004 07:00 AMCNET News.com's Michael Kanellos says last week's biotech conference
mayhem highlights consumer power and industry PR issues.
Video gaming and its discontents
Video gaming and its discontents
12/24/2003 12:38 AMSalon Dec 24 2003 0:02AM ET
v-2 Organisation | news | Ikeaphobia and
its discontents
v-2 Organisation | news | Ikeaphobia and
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01/28/2004 03:36 PMYahoo's Offers New Anti-Spyware Tool...
That Actually Finds Spyware
Yahoo's Offers New Anti-Spyware Tool...
That Actually Finds Spyware
08/05/2004 03:50 AMIt appears that Yahoo heard the backlash loud and clear a few months
back when they released an anti-spyware tool that
just so
happened to skip over adware from Yahoo partners. The latest
version, built on PestPatrol's technology will now
default to
notifying users of both "spyware" and what they consider to be
"adware" and then give the user the choice of what to do. I
haven't tested the product yet, but it sounds like they're moving in
the right direction. It still makes you wonder what they were
thinking in offering a purposely crippled offering. People know what
spyware is, and telling them that spyware isn't spyware doesn't change
how people feel about it. It also doesn't make them look kindly back
at the company that provided them with the bogus anti-spyware tool in
the first place.
Spyware Company Sues Utah Over
Anti-Spyware Law
Spyware Company Sues Utah Over
Anti-Spyware Law
04/13/2004 03:42 PMYahoo's Famed Anti-Spyware App Allows
Spyware From Partners
Yahoo's Famed Anti-Spyware App Allows
Spyware From Partners
06/02/2004 10:10 AMWe didn't write about Yahoo's new "anti-spyware" toolbar that they
announced last week, because it seemed to receive plenty of hype, and
there were no real reviews of how it worked. There are so many
so-called anti-spyware applications out there that
don't
actually stop spyware and adware for fear of upsetting marketing
companies or out of worries that actually stopping spyware may make
some applications stop working (upsetting the user), that we figured
Yahoo's anti-spyware app (hype and all) probably wouldn't be much to
bother with. It certainly looks like that may be the case. eWeek is
now reporting that Yahoo tries to dance the careful dance of not
upsetting certain companies who
threate
n to sue people who call their application spyware. Of course,
the situation is even more complex because Claria (who you probably
know as Gator - despite their attempt to
change
their name to shake that spyware label) is also a partner of
Yahoo. So, it's really not surprising that
the default
setting for Yahoo's anti-spyware app won't actually remove services
like Gator or WhenU. Instead, Yahoo's spyware remover claims
these programs are "adware" and will only remove them if you click and
extra check box
each time you run the program. In other words,
once again, you can't trust a provider of anti-spyware software,
because they're playing both sides of the fence: partnering with
providers on the one hand, and then offering weak removal products on
the other. If Yahoo were serious about removing spyware from the
computers of users they would refuse to partner with companies that
used surreptitious tactics to be installed on computers. Instead,
they want to look good to users in the front, while letting in
spyware/adware from partners through the backdoor.
AOL Offers Spyware Stopper... Just After
They Started Offering Spyware
AOL Offers Spyware Stopper... Just After
They Started Offering Spyware
04/22/2004 02:36 AMJust a few weeks after saying that they're going to start
bundling
spyware/adware with their instant messenger product, AOL announces
their
latest
anti-spyware application. While we've been complaining about
anti-spyware from ISPs that just points out the spyware, AOL claims
that this version will disable (though not delete) the spyware. I
wonder if it will catch the spyware that AOL installs themselves.
The Top Ten Spyware
The Top Ten Spyware
03/22/2005 04:23 PMAccording to Webroot Inc. and listed in the Inquirer, here are
the top ten spyware and adware threats based on detection as well as
potential impact.
1. CoolWebSearch
2. Gator
3. 180 search asst.
4.
ISTbar/AUpdate
5. Transponder
6. Internet optimizer
7. BlazeFind
8. Hot as Hell
9. Advance Keylogger
10. TIBS Dialer
Read how each works at the Inquirer Website.
What you should know about spyware
What you should know about spyware
04/26/2004 06:19 AMSpyware: Where's the fix?
Spyware: Where's the fix?
04/20/2004 04:52 PMZDNet Apr 20 2004 9:47PM GMT
See how Spyware has taken over a PC
See how Spyware has taken over a PC
05/28/2004 10:46 AMWant to see what a little program that is full of spyware can do to
your system check out this Windows Task Manager. Makes me say ouch. Oh
and guess what program it was, the freeware version of Kazaa [
Dave Winer]
Spyware vs. spyware
Spyware vs. spyware
08/30/2004 03:50 PMEven as many online marketing companies struggle to comply with recent
federal legislation governing unsolicited commercial e-mail -- spam to
you and me -- new state and federal legislation addresses another
online blight: spyware. From California to Washington, D.C., lawmakers
are lining up for the chance to smack down this bothersome byproduct
of online commerce.
AAA Spyware C.O.P. v10.0
AAA Spyware C.O.P. v10.0
11/13/2003 12:22 PMThis product will scan your P.C. for spyware and adware, notifying you
of the infected files, as well as the spyware or adware name. After
registering you may use spyware cop as an adware and spyware remover,
deleting the infected files and programs. [Shareware $19.95 990
KB]
Spyware
Spyware
06/16/2004 11:30 AMPersonal Computer World Jun 16 2004 3:31PM GMT
Spyware Sucks!
Spyware Sucks!
04/19/2004 08:25 PMFTC Takes Aim At Spyware
FTC Takes Aim At Spyware
04/19/2004 03:07 PMSpyware Warrior
Spyware Warrior
07/17/2004 05:00 AMSpyware Warrior http://netrn.net/spywareblog
A very impressive anti-spyware blog. It includes articles
that should be of interest to everyone, software updates and security
warrnings, tutorials and info, and a lot of
links. Including
links to freeware and commercial spyware killers (mostly freeware),
and links to the forums of every major anti-spyware producer
(Ad-Aware, Spybot, HiJack This, Javacool Software, etc.), and even has
a forum of it's own. However the real reason you'll actually wan't to
visit the forum is this page:
http://www
.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm A list of
all rogue or suspect sites that make cloned, fake, or actively
malicious "anti-spyware". This will be added to
Security Resources
2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. This has been added to
Internet Hoaxes Subject
Tracer Information Blog under the AntiHoax and AntiVirus section.[
Net-Gold]
Which Spyware Remover?
Which Spyware Remover?
09/14/2004 08:27 PMAd - http://www.AdwareReport.com Sep 14 2004 10:41PM GMT
Sizing up "spyware"
Sizing up "spyware"
03/25/2005 07:17 PMBlog: Software designed to monitor Web surfers' behavior and bombard
the PC with pop-up ads is a thriving business. And at least...
FTC to weigh in on spyware
FTC to weigh in on spyware
04/16/2004 06:19 AMThe FTC plans to hold hearings next week to look at the problem of
spyware. Would banning spyware have any better outcome than banning
spam?
FTC Takes On Spyware
FTC Takes On Spyware
04/19/2004 07:04 PMRSS, Spam and Spyware
RSS, Spam and Spyware
06/05/2005 11:08 PMAs I mentioned in my previous
post, I'm a firm believer in using blogs and RSS for distributed
conversation. So, I'd like to start a conversation about the threat
that spam and spyware pose to our little syndicated world. I brought
this topic up with several companies who were at the Syndicate Conference,
and I was disturbed to discover how few of them are even thinking
about this pending problem.
Most of them replied, "Spam problem? But there isn't one - if
someone's feed contains spam, everyone will just unsubscribe!" Well,
yeah - but only if we subscribe to individual feeds, which I
believe will take a backseat to aggregated feeds. I'll use my own
experience with the NewsG
ator acquisition as an example: hundreds of blogs contained news
of the acquisition, but I was subscribed to very few of their feeds.
Instead, I subscribed to dynamic search feeds - that is, keyword-based
feeds powered by RSS search engines - which enabled me to listen in on
the conversation. Very powerful indeed - but unfortunately, very
spammable.
There are already fake<
/a> spam
blogs, many of which have RSS feeds. Most of the
ones I've seen were created to influence search engine rankings, but
it's only a matter of time before they use their feeds for delivering
spam (I'll wager that some of them already do). These fake blogs are
easy to set up, so as soon as one is taken down, it will re-appear
somewhere else (much like their spyware-filled brethren, the warez
sites), making it tricky to simply filter them out by their subdomain
name. My guess is that the main reason we don't see more RSS spam is
simply because spammers are waiting for it to be profitable. Now that
conferences such as Syndicate are attended not just by geeks and
developers but also by investors, they've got to be thinking that the
time is almost here. Create a bunch of fake blogs littered with
popular keywords, and let their feeds be picked up by the RSS search
engines (to their credit, some of the RSS search engine companies I
talked with are already tackling this problem).
Even if I'm way off base about how spam will come to RSS, we all
know that spammers will find a way to jump on the RSS bandwagon.
Given past history, every new social technology needs to think about
spam right from the start, or else risk being crippled by it (side
note: many implementations of tagging also strike me
as being spammable).
Related to this is the fact that RSS enclosures (a.k.a. "podcasts")
must look attractive to spywa
re creators. Before I added podcast
features to FeedDemon, I took a look at how a few of the existing
tools were handling them. To my surprise, security didn't seem to be
a big concern - they'd even download EXE enclosures, perhaps assuming
that the user's anti-virus software would stop them from being
executed if they were malware. Couple automatic enclosure downloading
with dynamic search feeds which contain enclosures, and you've got a
great spyware delivery system. This is why I made sure that FeedDemon
used a safe list for downloading enclosures.
If you make a living from RSS, I hope you'll join in this
conversation - either here or in your own blog - and let everyone know
whether you're thinking about this problem (or, just let me know I'm
full of it if you disagree that it's a threat).
Other News: Spyware
Other News: Spyware
04/16/2004 10:28 AMAn EarthLink survey found more than 300,000 trojan horses, monitors
and backdoors on personal computers.
Spyware Gets Top Billing
Spyware Gets Top Billing
07/03/2004 12:45 AMComputerworld Jul 3 2004 4:06AM GMT
Spyware becomes pandemic in the US
Spyware becomes pandemic in the US
04/16/2004 06:28 PMComputer Shopper Apr 16 2004 9:49PM GMT
Yahoo Vs Spyware
Yahoo Vs Spyware
05/27/2004 04:41 PMYahoo has launched a beta of their Yahoo Toolbar designed to help
combat spyware and browser hijackers. In addition they have added a
forum to their site for users to discuss spyware in general. This is
one of the first major internet portals to recognize and attempt to
combat the epedemic of privacy intrusion and advertising software
being installed on users computers.
Spyware: Where's the quick fix?
Spyware: Where's the quick fix?
04/20/2004 07:11 AMZDNet Apr 20 2004 11:49AM GMT
Microsoft and Spyware
Microsoft and Spyware
08/13/2004 12:30 PMMy older, wiser brother Steve
points out:
"Although Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) provides fixes for many of
Internet Explorer's persistent security flaws, it does little or
nothing about spyware, where "free" software adds code to your system
that can capture keystrokes, monitor e-mail and IM traffic, and send
the resulting data back to the invader's home base without your
knowledge."
Spyware getting nastier
Spyware getting nastier
05/01/2004 08:54 AMI had a co-worker ask me this morning how to get rid of some spyware
that he caught while surfing...
The spyware inferno
The spyware inferno
08/13/2004 12:21 PMCNET News.com Aug 13 2004 5:09PM GMT
Spyware as a service
Spyware as a service
08/12/2004 03:02 PMZDNet Aug 12 2004 6:39PM GMT
Ad’s and spyware and worms oh my
Ad’s and spyware and worms oh my
04/14/2005 08:49 AMMe on the radio about spyware
Me on the radio about spyware
05/18/2004 03:04 PMI did a 4 minute interview this afternoon on WBUR's Here and Now show.
The topic was spyware. [SPOILER:] I'm against it....
Analysis of Spyware
Analysis of Spyware
08/07/2004 11:58 AMThe Spyware Revolution
The Spyware Revolution
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