Spyware

Spyware is a new strand of malicious software (or malware), annoying, and capable of robbing computer users all over the world. Spyware emerged in recent years to "entertain" computer users. This emergence coincided with a sea change in the world of mainstream computer attackers that shifted their focus from having fun at somebody else's expense to making money at somebody else's expense. Find more information about Spyware, Anti-Virus software and security software at O'Reilly Media.


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Spyware that prevents cookie deletion - O'Reilly Radar

By Marc Hedlund

Company Bypasses Cookie-Deleting Consumers - This is great. A company makes a piece of spyware that tries to prevent you from deleting your own cookies. Check out the quote from the founder/CEO: Mookie Tanembaum, founder and chief executive of United Virtualities, says the company is trying to help consumers by preventing them from deleting cookies that help website operators deliver...

Publish Date: April 01, 2005

PC Pest Control

PC Pest Control, 1st Edition

By Preston Gralla

This comprehensive guide helps you guard against Internet pests like adware, spyware, Trojans, spam, phishing, and more. Written in a non-intimidating manner, it describes each problem and its symptoms, rates the danger level, and then shows you how...

Format: Print, Safari Books Online

Publish Date: July 2005

Cookies: Now With Less Frequent Annoyance - O'Reilly Radar

By Marc Hedlund

This quote from Spyware Heats Up the Debate Over Cookies in the NY Times, about increases in the number of cookies users are deleting, is fantastic: It isn't necessarily just corporate America that is threatened by the anticookie fervor, [Lorraine Ross, vice president for sales at USAToday.com] said - the deleters stand to suffer, too. For example, cookies help a...

Publish Date: August 15, 2005

 
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Spyware that prevents cookie deletion - O'Reilly Radar

By Marc Hedlund

Company Bypasses Cookie-Deleting Consumers - This is great. A company makes a piece of spyware that tries to prevent you from deleting your own cookies. Check out the quote from the founder/CEO: Mookie Tanembaum, founder and chief executive of United Virtualities, says the company is trying to help consumers by preventing them from deleting cookies that help website operators deliver...

Publish Date: April 01, 2005

PC Pest Control

PC Pest Control, 1st Edition

By Preston Gralla

This comprehensive guide helps you guard against Internet pests like adware, spyware, Trojans, spam, phishing, and more. Written in a non-intimidating manner, it describes each problem and its symptoms, rates the danger level, and then shows you how...

Format: Print, Safari Books Online

Publish Date: July 2005

Cookies: Now With Less Frequent Annoyance - O'Reilly Radar

By Marc Hedlund

This quote from Spyware Heats Up the Debate Over Cookies in the NY Times, about increases in the number of cookies users are deleting, is fantastic: It isn't necessarily just corporate America that is threatened by the anticookie fervor, [Lorraine Ross, vice president for sales at USAToday.com] said - the deleters stand to suffer, too. For example, cookies help a...

Publish Date: August 15, 2005