spyware

You may have heard of the Dell Computers spyware allegations involving My Way Search Assistant. But a story is making the rounds (posted on a blog from last July) that Dell charged a customer $49 to remove the unwanted program from his computer.

Advertisers who expect their Overture ad campaigns to run with certain Yahoo Searches may be surprised to find their ads running in syndicated spyware applications that render each impression as an ad click the advertiser must pay.

When I first started working with computers a little over ten years ago I had never heard about viruses.

You may have heard of a company called Shavlik. They were recently named as one of the fastest growing technology companies in North America.

The Federal Trade Commission has shut down three companies that tricked bloggers into placing code on their sites that delivered spyware to user machines.

MySearch Bar and other plugins by Ask Jeeves can arrive from third parties on a computer system without asking for permission first.

Search engine Ask Jeeves appears to be having a world of problems with some of its software. Apparently, a number of anti-spyware firms have flagged Jeeves for some of the downloading techniques and distribution channels it chooses for its toolbars and other software.

Lots more web sites have cropped up, for the sole purpose of hosting spyware and infecting computers.