BT, TalkTalk and Virgin Media broadband internet providers, faced the anger of the customers after collaborating with a pioneer in spyware technology. With nine million households between them, they signed up to software from AIM-listed business Phorm, run by US magnate Kent Ertugrul.

Process Software, a premier supplier of communications software solutions to mission-critical environments, announced the release of SpyCatcher Enterprise v5.0.The latest version offers a new spyware Profiling Engine, which includes multiple layers of technology to stop the most sophisticated spyware threats.

China is the departure location for a Trojan horse, Mocmex on its name. It comes in the digital photo frames or portable storage devices. It insinuated itself during the manufacturing process, is undetectable for the antivirus programs and can skip over the Windows firewall.

Every spy has another one behind, supervising him. Is this principle applicable even in the case of the spyware and anti-spyware? So it looks.

The worse scenario is that ending in a court because bad guys and good guys seem to belong to the same group, or it’s getting harder to distinguish between them. The president of the Cyber Security Industry Alliance, Tim Bennett, said that content providers sued alliance members for labeling them as bad.

Gian Fulgoni, ComScore chairman and co-founder, felt necessary to straighter the fact that the term "researchware", on one hand, and 'adware,' 'spyware,' and 'malware', on the other hand, must not be confused. The distinction is that while the first is used by the market researchers, the second ones are used by the criminal researchers.