by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 29, 2005 | Uncategorized
techdirt reports that Reuters has a story that cars could attacked by virusues. Hide your children! Stock up on batteries! Spay the cats! The end is nigh!As techdirt points out: Never mind that F-Secure tried like mad to infect a car with no...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 29, 2005 | Uncategorized
According to this post on Hexus.net, the Electronic Frontier Foundation says that “The US government has succeeded in persuading some color laser printer manufacturers to encode each page with identifying information. That means that without your knowledge or...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 29, 2005 | Uncategorized
Spywarewarrior.com has made a full report as to the state of Hotbar detections in the industry. It compares Ad-aware, CounterSpy, McAfee, Microsoft, Pest Patrol, Spy Sweeper, Spyware Doctor, Trend...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 29, 2005 | Uncategorized
There’s Sundance. There’s Cannes. There’s Toronto. And now there’s the Antispy Film Festival.First off, Paperghost moves into the genre with a brash, hard-edged look at the spyware business. Two thumbs up. Feel good...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 29, 2005 | Uncategorized
From eMarketer, always good at nifty spiffy charts and graphs:“Requiring the installation of extra software to view the site” can mean a Flash install (yawn) or a spyware install (not good). I agree with all of these, but let’s be real: Sites...