I’m not a big fan of spyware tools that insist that tracking cookies are spyware.
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October 20, 2005
by Neil Turner
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Category Archives: Spyware
April 30, 2005
by Neil Turner
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No spyware on download.com
Download.com is no longer listing programs that contain bundled spyware.
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March 14, 2005
by Neil Turner
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The advertisers that support spyware
Ben Edelman dedicates quite a bit of his time to investigating spyware – his latest study looks into the advertisers whose adverts are shown in the spyware application eXact.
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February 4, 2005
by Neil Turner
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Could VeriSign stop spyware?
Ben Edelman explains how VeriSign could stop drive-by spyware.
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January 6, 2005
by Neil Turner
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Microsoft Antispyware Beta 1
The first beta of Microsoft’s long awaited anti-spyware tool is now available as a free download.
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December 16, 2004
by Neil Turner
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My housemate means business
My housemate’s computer has got so badly infested with spyware that was beyond the reach of Ad-Aware and Spybot Search & Destroy that he’s bought a copy of Spyware Doctor, a shareware application.
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December 6, 2004
by Neil Turner
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Spyware: the wrong attitude
Via Meredith is this Wired News article about people who don’t mind spyware.
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December 1, 2004
by Neil Turner
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Cheeky spyware
Was de-spyware-ifying a computer today and hit upon ‘Windows TaskAd’ – a nasty piece of work which Spybot Search & Destroy doesn’t yet detect.
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October 17, 2004
by Neil Turner
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Cool Spybot feature
There’s a feature of Spybot Search & Destroy that I’ve only just noticed but is potentially very useful.
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September 12, 2004
by Neil Turner
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Faster than you can say “scum of the earth”
Somehow in the time it took to install Windows 2000 SP4 on our server, the machine got infected with some kind of spyware which pops up seemingly random adverts every 30 seconds or so.
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