by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 28, 2005 | Uncategorized
Update: According to CNET, we learn that MS is using WholeSecurity’s technology for the antiphishing component. The security space is a small world, and we know the guys from Wholesecurity and respect them. But I admit to being a little bummed...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 28, 2005 | Uncategorized
I was a bit ticked off by this new Windows DisAdvantage Program (I tried Windows Update it and sure enough, a friggin “Validation Tool” was downloaded to my machine), until I learned that security patches will still be available. However, when you go...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 27, 2005 | Uncategorized
The most vexing spyware strains are Cool Web Search and VX2/Transponder. These are the types of spyware that kill machines. For a while now, Patrick Jordan (known in the antispyware community as WebHelper), has been helping us with removing these types of...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 21, 2005 | Uncategorized
Sleazy!You get the Internet Explorer “The page cannot be displayed” error message. Except — it’s the actual web page, doctored to look like the IE error page. Then, you get a yellow bar that looks like the XP Sp2 bar on the top,...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 21, 2005 | Uncategorized
We have been in discussions with WhenU over the past several weeks over our detection of their software in our database. As we had blogged earlier, we have found WhenU’s practices have shown a dramatic improvement over the last year (certainly, better than...
