California Goes After Spyware
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The Golden State passes a law aimed at cracking down on what some feel is the internet's next scourge -- spyware. But critics say it's only a partial step toward protecting consumers.
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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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The FBI planted spyware on a 15-year-old boy's computer in Washington state to help finger him as the person responsible for a number of bomb threats e-mailed to his high school earlier this year.
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Homes computers, lacking firewalls and up-to-date virus protection, are crawling with spyware.
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Federal authorities have asked a US District Court judge to shut down an operation that they said installed intrusive spyware on people&#39;s computers and then sold the victims anti-spyware software
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While a bill passed by the House last month put stricter requirements on software to protect consumers from spyware, the body has passed another bill with even stricter policies.
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Companies are accused of infecting PCs, and then selling spyware-blocking software.
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This year's deluge of spyware has put the need to clean up the Internet in stark relief. What's more, it has set in motion the imminent re-alignment of some of tech's marquee players - Symantec, McAfee, Microsoft, America Online and Yahoo, among them.
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The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday filed the first case in the country against software companies accused of infecting computers with intrusive &quot;spyware
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Worried about catching viruses, spyware, or other malicious software while surfing the Web?
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Microsoft last week warned Windows XP users to scour their systems for spyware before downloading Service Pack 2. An Associated Press report quoted Microsoft executives saying some spyware could cause computers to freeze upon installation.
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The U.S. government has sued a New Hampshire man in its first attempt to crack down on Internet "spyware" that seizes control of a user's computer without permission.
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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 US Government has moved for the first time to block unsolicited circulation on the Internet of spyware, a type of software that can inundate web users with pop-up ads, secretly take control of their computers and spy on their online activities.
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The software works its way into a computer, hijacking the Web browser and causing the CD-ROM tray to slide open mysteriously. WASHINGTON: The US government has sued a New Hampshire man in its first attempt
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Release of anti-spyware tool, promise of virus removal software could spell trouble for antivirus software companies.
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30/09/04 - News - San Francisco (USA) - La lotta agli spyware, infidi programmini che si infilano surrettiziamente nei PC meno protetti, prende un nuovo abbrivio in California, dove il governatore Arnold Schwarzenegger ha firmato la legge che li mette al