US gov targets spyware outfit
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A company which makes software that infiltrates users&#39; computers and demands $30 to be removed has been targeted by US authorities.
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For millions of PC users, the privacy-snatching programs known as spyware have been nothing but a headache as they swipe personal information, slow systems to a crawl and crash computers.
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The computer maker and a nonprofit organization have launched a project to teach people about spyware and how to avoid it. By Thomas Claburn.
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Weâve all been hearing a lotÂ  lately about spyware, those nasty little apps that secret themselves onto your computer, hog resources, change your default settings, and maybe even steal personal information and send it to third parties. Despite all the talk, spyware still isnât getting the attention it deserves in the enterprise.
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In ordering a New Hampshire man to stop sending spyware that takes over parts of a user&#39;s computer, a federal judge has sent a warning shot at spammers in the United States.
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The makers of programs that spy on what people do with their home PCs could face hefty fines in California.
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Windows users could soon be paying for Microsoft software that keeps their machine free of spyware.
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The company unveils the first version of a spyware-killing application based on technology from recently acquired Giant Software.
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Spyware, an amorphous class of software that mostly gets onto computers without their usersâ knowledge, has become epidemic in the past year as people spend more time online and spyware developers get more aggressive.
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A federal judge has ordered a man known as the &quot;Spam King&quot; to disable so-called spyware programs that infiltrate people&#39;s computers, track their Internet use and flood them with pop-up advertising.
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A study of home PCs released on Monday found that about 80 percent had been infected with spyware almost entirely unbeknownst to their users.
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THE FEDS have fingered the collar of a Connecticut computer hacker. He&#39;s been charged with flogging copies of Microsoft Windows proprietary source code.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Two of the agencies most actively involved in bringing cyber-criminals to justice in the United States have expressed opposing opinions over pending anti-spyware legislation.
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In what regulators are calling a first, the government has asked for a court order to shut down a spyware operation.
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Federal authorities have asked a federal judge to shut down an operation that they said installed intrusive "spyware" on people's computers and then sold anti-spyware software to those same victims, a top consumer protection official said today. -washingtonpost.com
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Agency says Odysseus Marketing bundled bogus software with spyware; Spy Deleter charged with posing as antispyware.
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The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed a legal complaint against two companies that allegedly infected computers with spyware and pop-up advertising, then tried to sell spyware-blocking software.