Who blocks the (ad) blockers?
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With The New York Times picking up the recent story of the (mostly minor) anti-Adblock Plus protest, its worth looking into the subject and seeing just where a Webmaster/ad-block developer arms race could take us.
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Google acted quickly to block Santy.A, a worm that targeted the company&#39;s popular Internet search engine. Antivirus experts say this threat has passed, but predict that it may be just
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Zawodny  threads off of Scoble  on the IE issue:  "I have to say, when I first read that I nearly fell off my chair laughing. I was thinking "how stupid ARE these IE guys?!?!?!" But we all know that Microsoft is full of smart people who care about what they're doing. So something really doesn't compute here."  "Last time I checked, IE wasn't even close to feature parity with Mozilla's browsers. No popup blocking, no tabbed browsing, etc."  "Does the IE team really not know what their product is missing?"  Perhaps.  It's highly likely that they just don't know.  The bigger issue here is that Microsoft products can't fail and they can't succeed.  Microsoft has 40-50 billion in the bank.  There ...
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The online community/portal company&#39;s offensive against spammers began this week, when it started distributing a screensaver that conducts a denial-of-service attack against sites that market products via spam.
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A $3 million fine isn't enough to stop adware company Zango from installing software without consent, critics charge. They want the government to keep hounding the miscreants. In 27B Stroke 6.
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The Featured Homepage Discussion today on WebmasterWorld is about Google notifying advertisers that it will no longer run ads for Ephedra or Ephedrine products. Google sent me an e-mail today addressing me as an AdWords Advertiser, though they sent it to the e-mail account that I use for managing AdSense, for whatever that&#8217;s worth. The note informed [...]
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Advertisements placed by Google in  Web pages are being hijacked by so-called trojan software that  replaces the intended text with ads from a different provider,  Romanian antivirus company BitDefender says.
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When the Santy.a worm started spreading on Tuesday, Mikko Hypponen knew he had a way to stop the worm in its tracks. The only problem: He had trouble finding the right people to talk to at search giant Google.
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DC's hardcore lobbyists go to work The internet ad giant has hired hardcore Washington lobbyists the DCI Group to give it more clout inside the Beltway, blogger Josh Marshall reminds us today.â¦
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Microsoft is now selling Ask.com Sponsored Listings via its Microsoft adManager search marketing service. In addition to the MSN adCenter sponsored search ads sold via Microsoft, its customers can now use the service to purchase and manage search campaigns throughout Ask.com. adManager helps you advertise your business to the right people&#8212;those already searching for what you [...]
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(Source: St. Bernard Software) IT professionals increasingly view the Web as a minefield. Trojans, phishing attacks, adware, and spyware are just some of the threats that have to be countered. Securing your organization against Web-borne attacks -- and keeping your users away from 'Net distractions -- often falls on filtering technologies. This program will discuss how organizations can use filtering and other security technologies to fight Web-borne dangers.
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CNet Editors&#39; Choice Award winner, Nov. 2003. Stops pop-ups, kills adware and spyware; erases cookies and history. Protect your privacy.
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Most sites are ignoring a new Firefox add-in that can block Web ads. The Daily Kos, however, is asking users of the product to buy subscriptions.
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Most users think their computer is safe from adware and spyware--but they're wrong.
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Microsoft adCenter Contextual Advertising Heating Up JenSense has the scoop on the Microsoft answer to Google AdSense and Yahoo Publisher Network, Microsoft ContentAds beta. Jen says that Microsoft is looking for a few good advertisers who are interested in testing out the contextual ads on Microsoft&#8217;s BIG MONEY channels; &#8220;Selected advertisers just received invitations to participate [...]
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When legit sites attack Excite.com and Rhapsody.com are the latest name-brand websites to be found serving advertisements that try to install malware onto users' machines, security researchers said. The sites join a Rogue's Gallery of mainstream destinations that include MySpace, Excite, Blick, and CNN.com, which all have been caught carrying tainted ads over the past few months.â¦
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Open-source spam blocker gets legal makeover with switch to Apache license. Oh, and tech upgrades.