What&#39;s inside your computer? Study finds spyware, viruses ...
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Natalia Rudiak of Carrick could not figure out why her trusted laptop was acting sluggish and sometimes unresponsive. Then it crashed, and she was forced to find
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Security researchers studying the latest Internet crime trends have discovered a new Eastern European website that uses a large botnet to infect vulnerable PCs. The operators of the botnet and website charge clients for each successful PC infection.
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Most users think their computer is safe from adware and spyware--but they&#39;re wrong. A survey conducted by Internet service provider America Online found that 20 percent of home computers were infected by a
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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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This article discusses the discovery of compromised machines in large enterprise environments, and offers some suggestions on correlating NIDS and HIPS logs to avoid false positives.
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Apparently, some two thirds of home users think they are safe from online threats, but 20 percent of home computers are infected by a virus, and 80 percent have problems with spyware and adware.
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Oct. 26 - The warning for home computer users is: When you log on, look out. A new study from America Online and the National Cyber Security Alliance shows that two-thirds of home computers have no protective firewall and 80% are infected with spyware.
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It&#39;s not just the privacy issue of multiple users on a computer and the tool indexing everyone&#39;s contents anymore. According to a Rice University computer scientist, the flaw could allow an attacker to search
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So we find out yesterday that Sears installs spyware on customer's machines.  Oops.      But wait! There's more!
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New security software supplements antivirus protection by scanning systems for &#39;bot&#39; malware that can take over unprotected PCs.
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Microsoft said some spyware could cause computers to freeze up upon installation of the SP2 update. Microsoft recommends that users clean their PCs of spyware and back up their data before
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NEW YORK -- Search terms related to music and technology are most likely to return sites with spyware and other malicious code, a new study finds.
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Researchers find that net users are not as secure as they think. Among surveyed adults who believed they were safe from online threats, most had spyware running on their home computers and few had firewall protection.
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Tzvetan Ceco Chaliavski's workday begins just like most people's, with a check of his e-mail. But his inbox often contains more than 400 warnings and samples of viruses, worms and all manner of malware.
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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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INTERNET users at home are not nearly as safe online as they believe, according to a nationwide inspection by US researchers. They found most consumers have no firewall protection, outdated anti-virus software
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By Phil Mulkins, Tulsa World, Okla.  Sep. 15--Dear Action Line: My kids think I'm an old fuddy-dud and bought me a computer with Internet service to "modernize me." On Monday, you said there were sneaks out there using "spyware" to steal my identity.