| Adware - Spyware : Malware EULA - Copyright on Virus Code ? |
| Posted by Max on 2008/5/2 5:19:28 (720 reads) |

Even criminal hackers want to protect their intellectual property, and they've come up with a method akin to copyrighting — with an appropriate dash of Internet thuggery thrown in. |
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| Adware - Spyware : Cyberoam Reports Q1 2008 Email Threats and Malware Cloacks |
| Posted by Max on 2008/4/29 17:26:58 (531 reads) |

Cyberoam, a division of Elitecore Technologies and the leading innovator of Unified Threat Management PLUS (UTM+) solutions, today announced that its Q1 2008 email threat trend report, prepared in collaboration with partner Commtouch, revealed that malware distributors and spammers are now hiding their unwanted messages within legitimate-appearing Websites and messages. |
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| Adware - Spyware : Webroot's Top 4 Malware Security Tips |
| Posted by Max on 2008/4/15 16:15:33 (606 reads) |

Webroot, has issued a white paper entitled ‘How to Protect Business from Malware at the Endpoint and the Perimeter’ that includes four key tips to protect enterprises and SMEs against malware infection.
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| Adware - Spyware : G-Archiver's Secret Feature is Spyware! |
| Posted by Max on 2008/3/19 15:37:39 (676 reads) |

The G-Archiver program, used to support the Gmail, turned to be a malicious spyware app that emails the customer’s Gmail username and password to a secret Gmail account. |
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| Adware - Spyware : Why ISPs Should NOT Deploy Spyware |
| Posted by Max on 2008/3/13 14:53:43 (623 reads) |

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. |
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| Adware - Spyware : Mocmex Trojan found in digital photo frames! |
| Posted by Max on 2008/2/25 3:53:00 (919 reads) |

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. |
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| Adware - Spyware : Cyber Security Industry Alliance Labels Adware by Mistake |
| Posted by Max on 2008/2/20 13:36:27 (662 reads) |

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. |
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| Adware - Spyware : Comscore is Researchware - Adware in the making or innocent software? |
| Posted by Max on 2008/2/11 13:03:03 (689 reads) |

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. |
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