http://www.blogger.com/feeds/26327906/posts/fullFri, 21 Apr 2006 00:33:25 +0000http://spyware.technologybn.com/Technology MonsterBlogger115http://www.blogger.com/feeds/26327906/posts/full/117571940561270357Wed, 04 Apr 2007 20:42:31 +00002007-04-04T13:43:25.620-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><table class="post_body" summary="Daily Bookmarks 01/17/2007"><tr valign="top"><td> Quote : At Footnote.com you will find millions of images of original source documents, many of which have never been available online before. We have created powerful tools that let you interact with and enhance what you find. If you have original source images of your own that you want to share with your colleagues, classmates, friends and family, simply upload them to Footnote and use our tools to make your images searchable and available to others. </td></tr></table> <dl> <dd><a href="http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/daily-bookmarks-01172007/" title="Daily Bookmarks 01/17/2007">Continue</a></dd> </dl> </div></div>http://spyware.technologybn.com/2007/04/daily-bookmarks-01172007.htmlTechnology Monsterhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26327906/posts/full/117571940379561826Wed, 04 Apr 2007 20:42:29 +00002007-04-04T13:43:23.823-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><table class="post_body" summary="Vista Firewall Isn't Quite What It Seems"><tr valign="top"><td> The XP version could block incoming attacks, but the Vista edition watches traffic both in and out of your system, which can <a href="http://www.drug-rehabilitation-search.com/" title="Drug Rehabilitation Search">help</a> stop malicious programs from stealing data or spewing spam e-mails." In fact, Vista's firewall can monitor and selectively block both inbound and outbound network connections. Strangely, the firewall control panel, part of the Windows Security Center, does not let you set up outbound filtering. </td></tr></table> <dl> <dd><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2007/01/vista_firewall.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting" title="Vista Firewall Isn't Quite What It Seems">Continue</a></dd> </dl> </div></div>http://spyware.technologybn.com/2007/04/vista-firewall-isnt-quite-what-it.htmlTechnology Monsterhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26327906/posts/full/116104199756330397Mon, 16 Oct 2006 23:33:15 +00002006-10-16T16:39:58.146-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><table class="post_body" summary="Latest McDonald's Giveaway Prize: Spyware"><tr valign="top"><td> McDonald's Japan came up with what it certainly thought was a great promotion recently: print a code on its soft-drink cups, then get users to send in a text message with it to see if they'd won one of 10,000 MP3 players pre-loaded with 10 free songs. But not only were the MP3 players some junky-looking McDonald's-branded model, but they came with an added bonus: spyware. McDonald's Japan has apologized and set up a hotline for affected consumers to call. </td></tr></table> <dl> <dd><a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20061016/015747.shtml" title="Latest McDonald's Giveaway Prize: Spyware">Continue</a></dd> </dl> </div></div>http://spyware.technologybn.com/2006/10/latest-mcdonalds-giveaway-prize.htmlTechnology Monsterhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26327906/posts/full/116052352706444800Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:32:16 +00002006-10-10T16:38:47.093-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><table class="post_body" summary="Here, Take My Wallet, Just Don't Phish Me"><tr valign="top"><td> A new survey in the UK says people there are more concerned about online crime than some physical crimes like burglary and mugging. This has more implications than people not wanting to deal with spam or spyware, as the survey says that one in four people won't bank online because of security concerns, a fifth won't shop online, and one in six won't go online at all. </td></tr></table> <dl> <dd><a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20061009/095037.shtml" title="Here, Take My Wallet, Just Don't Phish Me">Continue</a></dd> </dl> </div></div>http://spyware.technologybn.com/2006/10/here-take-my-wallet-just-dont-phish-me.htmlTechnology Monsterhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26327906/posts/full/115939496070316248Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:03:10 +00002006-09-27T15:09:20.816-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><table class="post_body" summary="You're Better Off Just Assuming You're Not Safe Online"><tr valign="top"><td> However, the latest bit of research points out that privacy policy or not, people have no clue if a site is going to spam them if they give it their email info. They simply assume that the site will (at some point) spam them, whether or not they promise not to. It's just not worth the bother to figure out what a site is actually going to do with your info... especially since it's likely that they'll change their policy at some point in the future and you won't be able to do a damn thing about it. </td></tr></table> <dl> <dd><a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20060926/154747.shtml" title="You're Better Off Just Assuming You're Not Safe Online">Continue</a></dd> </dl> </div></div>http://spyware.technologybn.com/2006/09/youre-better-off-just-assuming-youre.htmlTechnology Monsterhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26327906/posts/full/115785149935297739Sun, 10 Sep 2006 01:19:18 +00002006-09-09T18:24:59.416-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><table class="post_body" summary="FTC Appears To Disagree With Zango On The Legitimacy Of Spyware"><tr valign="top"><td> While Zango cast yesterday's announcement that a class-action suit against it had been dismissed as a validation of its spyware-driven <a href="http://bookkeepers.near-home.com/" title="Bookkeepers Near Home">business</a> model, the lack of any stated reason why the lawsuit got tossed -- plus the fact that people don't really trust spyware vendors, let alone ones that get caught doing dirty tricks -- didn't make that interpretation very convincing. </td></tr></table> <dl> <dd><a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20060908/083714.shtml" title="FTC Appears To Disagree With Zango On The Legitimacy Of Spyware">Continue</a></dd> </dl> </div></div>http://spyware.technologybn.com/2006/09/ftc-appears-to-disagree-with-zango-on.htmlTechnology Monsterhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26327906/posts/full/115776139134617553Sat, 09 Sep 2006 00:17:32 +00002006-09-08T17:23:11.380-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><table class="post_body" summary="Zango Wins Lawsuit, Dismisses Users Who Can't Uninstall Its App As 'Background Noise'"><tr valign="top"><td> Adware firm Zango, which recently changed its name from 180solutions is doing a bit of gloating today after a court dismissed the class action lawsuit that was filed against the company a year ago. It's not clear from Zango's announcement (yes, they announced it) why this case was thrown out -- but it's pretty clear that there's something in their software that pisses off an awful lot of people who have it and have no idea how they got it. </td></tr></table> <dl> <dd><a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20060907/151259.shtml" title="Zango Wins Lawsuit, Dismisses Users Who Can't Uninstall Its App As 'Background Noise'">Continue</a></dd> </dl> </div></div>http://spyware.technologybn.com/2006/09/zango-wins-lawsuit-dismisses-users-who.htmlTechnology Monsterhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26327906/posts/full/115282633490901860Thu, 13 Jul 2006 21:28:06 +00002006-07-13T14:32:14.946-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><table class="post_body" summary="Adware Vendor Tries To Dance Around Sneaky MySpace Installs"><tr valign="top"><td> It did give users a popup, but as the original security researcher noted, it wasn't clear that the popup was from Zango rather than MySpace -- and many users would just click it to see the <a href="http://www.blogtelevision.net/" title="BlogTelevision.net: Fresh Videos identified from millions of Blogs">video</a>, not realizing they would be installing adware in the process. First of all, it's amazing that they would make him out to be part of the problem, when all he did was point out to them what their own employee had done. </td></tr></table> <dl> <dd><a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20060712/1722257.shtml" title="Adware Vendor Tries To Dance Around Sneaky MySpace Installs">Continue</a></dd> </dl> </div></div>http://spyware.technologybn.com/2006/07/adware-vendor-tries-to-dance-around.htmlTechnology Monsterhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26327906/posts/full/115257144642136393Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:40:02 +00002006-07-10T15:44:06.440-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><table class="post_body" summary="Spyware Wants To Be Your Friend On MySpace"><tr valign="top"><td> The killer is this: they try to get you to add "their" videos onto your profile page (with the addition of some code), but don't mention the fact that if you add these videos, they pop open an installer box to any visitors that tries to get them to install Zango adware onto the PC. The original affiliate make <a href="http://bookkeepers.near-home.com/" title="Bookkeepers Near Home">money</a> every time it's installed, and all you get is a heap of complaints (and possibly a banned profile) because your profile is trying to install adware on visitors' computers. </td></tr></table> <dl> <dd><a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20060709/2318215.shtml" title="Spyware Wants To Be Your Friend On MySpace">Continue</a></dd> </dl> </div></div>http://spyware.technologybn.com/2006/07/spyware-wants-to-be-your-friend-on.htmlTechnology Monsterhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26327906/posts/full/115231566980109021Fri, 07 Jul 2006 23:37:10 +00002006-07-07T16:41:09.846-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><table class="post_body" summary="Direct Revenue Spyware Infected Company's Own Investors"><tr valign="top"><td> We've followed the saga of spyware maker Direct Revenue for years. That lawsuit meant that a lot of internal documents were made public, revealing a lot about what went on at the company, suggesting it wasn't at all interested in really cleaning up its act. As if to answer our own question of how the company could possibly make <a href="http://bookkeepers.near-home.com/" title="Bookkeepers Near Home">money</a> if it wasn't sneaky, the internal documents show that as soon as the company tried to be more transparent and less evil, people didn't want their software. </td></tr></table> <dl> <dd><a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20060707/042223.shtml" title="Direct Revenue Spyware Infected Company's Own Investors">Continue</a></dd> </dl> </div></div>http://spyware.technologybn.com/2006/07/direct-revenue-spyware-infected.htmlTechnology Monsterhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26327906/posts/full/115171956562120041Sat, 01 Jul 2006 02:02:10 +00002006-06-30T19:06:05.660-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><table class="post_body" summary="Will Windows Genuine Advantage Become Microsoft's Rootkit?"><tr valign="top"><td> Well, now the same lawyers who filed a class action lawsuit against Sony BMG for their rootkit have filed a suit against Microsoft, noting that WGA appears to violate spyware laws. While WGA doesn't seem nearly as bad as the Sony rootkit, Microsoft's slow response to complaints could create backlash against the company in the same way that Sony BMG faced a ton of backlash. </td></tr></table> <dl> <dd><a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20060629/1635234.shtml" title="Will Windows Genuine Advantage Become Microsoft's Rootkit?">Continue</a></dd> </dl> </div></div>http://spyware.technologybn.com/2006/06/will-windows-genuine-advantage-become.htmlTechnology Monsterhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26327906/posts/full/115136831529596083Tue, 27 Jun 2006 00:28:13 +00002006-06-26T17:31:55.323-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><table class="post_body" summary="And The Lord Said, Let There Be Spywayre"><tr valign="top"><td> Left Behind Games, a maker of evangelical Christian videogames, has partnered with startup Double Fusion to distribute and track in-game advertising. This is straight out of the spyware playbook: give out free games and then track the user. It's no surprise that the in-game advertising market would give rise to user tracking -- information that marketers love -- but who would have guessed that a Christian company would be such a pioneer in this type of activity? </td></tr></table> <dl> <dd><a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20060623/1131201.shtml" title="And The Lord Said, Let There Be Spywayre">Continue</a></dd> </dl> </div></div>http://spyware.technologybn.com/2006/06/and-lord-said-let-there-be-spywayre.htmlTechnology Monsterhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26327906/posts/full/115101493102791457Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:18:34 +00002006-06-22T15:22:11.046-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><table class="post_body" summary="Google Follows Yahoo In Questionable Bundling Deal With Adobe"><tr valign="top"><td> About a year ago, a lot of people were questioning why Macromedia made a deal to bundle Yahoo's toolbar with Flash downloads by default -- a practice many pointed out was quite similar to the way spyware was included with other apps. Since then, Macromedia merged with Adobe, who apparently didn't have a problem with these types of deals, because they've now done a similar deal with Google for their toolbar to be included on Shockwave Player downloads. </td></tr></table> <dl> <dd><a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20060621/1857207.shtml" title="Google Follows Yahoo In Questionable Bundling Deal With Adobe">Continue</a></dd> </dl> </div></div>http://spyware.technologybn.com/2006/06/google-follows-yahoo-in-questionable.htmlTechnology Monsterhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26327906/posts/full/115093164716713121Wed, 21 Jun 2006 23:10:33 +00002006-06-21T16:14:07.190-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><table class="post_body" summary="Apparently No One Wanted To Buy Claria's Adware/Spyware Remains"><tr valign="top"><td> Claria, which began its life as Gator, one of the earliest of the annoying surreptitious install adware providers tried to make a big splash over the last few months, moving away from the popup <a href="http://bookkeepers.near-home.com/" title="Bookkeepers Near Home">business</a> and into the "behavioral marketing" <a href="http://bookkeepers.near-home.com/" title="Bookkeepers Near Home">business</a> (conveniently avoiding the fact that the behavioral part was gleaned from those surreptitious, often unwanted, installs). So, while other adware players are merging incompetently, it looks like Claria can't even sell off its adware <a href="http://bookkeepers.near-home.com/" title="Bookkeepers Near Home">business</a>. </td></tr></table> <dl> <dd><a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20060620/2338256.shtml" title="Apparently No One Wanted To Buy Claria's Adware/Spyware Remains">Continue</a></dd> </dl> </div></div>http://spyware.technologybn.com/2006/06/apparently-no-one-wanted-to-buy.htmlTechnology Monsterhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26327906/posts/full/114738466336667552Thu, 11 May 2006 21:55:15 +00002006-05-11T14:57:43.373-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><table class="post_body" summary="Yahoo's Adware Ties Draw A Lawsuit From Advertisers"><tr valign="top"><td> Yahoo's ties to adware aren't anything new, but they've prompted a class-action lawsuit saying the company and spyware vendors defrauds advertisers by putting their ads on typosquatting and parked domain sites and displaying ads through spyware, when advertisers paid higher prices for search-based ads. The suit also alleges Yahoo floods the adware and typosquatting channels with more ads towards the end of quarters in an attempt to boost revenues. </td></tr></table> <dl> <dd><a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20060503/1158225.shtml" title="Yahoo's Adware Ties Draw A Lawsuit From Advertisers">Continue</a></dd> </dl> </div></div>http://spyware.technologybn.com/2006/05/yahoos-adware-ties-draw-lawsuit-from.htmlTechnology Monster