by Alex Eckelberry | Mar 12, 2005 | Uncategorized
WeatherBug privacy czar Dan O’Connell posted a long blog entry on setting standards in the adware business. Comparing the adware label applied to adware as a “Scarlet A” (a reference to Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter), he supports some type of...
by Alex Eckelberry | Mar 12, 2005 | Uncategorized
As it seems to go in security research, a few people working independently come to the same conclusions. At the same time one of our crack researchers was researching exploits in Firefox, VitalSecurity was working in the same direction.Firefox is more secure than IE...
by Alex Eckelberry | Mar 12, 2005 | Uncategorized
We’ve all seen misleading advertising on the internet about spyware. Popups that claim “your machine is infected!” Then you download the program, only to find that it requires you to buy the program in order to actually do anything about the problem....
by Alex Eckelberry | Mar 12, 2005 | Uncategorized
From this post by Karl Bode in Broadbandreports, Cydoor is asking to not be listed as spyware. We continue to list Cydoor in our database.
by Alex Eckelberry | Mar 9, 2005 | Uncategorized
Someone objected to my earlier editorializing about P2P software. It’s true, I’m no great fan of many P2P file sharing programs. Many load your machine up with adware, and there are people who use them to share files illegally. But putting that aside, I...
