America Online plans to introduce anti-spyware software for subscribers as part of an optional service upgrade early next year, the company confirmed Tuesday. In recent months, AOL has been testing a ...

ROUND ROCK, Texas--With spyware problems now accounting for 20 percent of it support calls, Dell will start to bundle a security package on its PCs that will help inoculate users. The bundle, coming ...

Web surfers battling "spyware" face a new problem: so-called spyware-killing programs that install the same kind of unwanted advertising software they promise to erase. Web surfers battling "spyware" ...

The Intellexa spy software consortium built and commercialized “highly invasive spyware products,” the Treasury Department ...

Like viruses and other harmful programs, spyware is a huge security problem. Worse than a typical virus, a spyware program can send corporate data directly from your company’s client computers to an ...

Microsoft has corrected a mistake in its anti-spyware product that flagged some Symantec security tools as malicious software. The problem occurred after Microsoft pushed out an update for Windows ...

Spyware has become such a universal problem that an entire industry has grown up around software designed to remove it. Initially the purview of developers of shareware and freeware, the demand for ...

Many users of Facebook’s WhatsApp messaging software were scrambling to patch the program on Tuesday, in response to news of a flaw that allowed spyware to be installed on mobile phones running ...

Spyware is a type of malware that secretly monitors you, steals sensitive information from your PC, and sends it to third parties without your knowledge. Some spyware might track your behavior online ...

Like viruses and other harmful programs, spyware is a huge security problem. Worse than a typical virus, a spyware program can send corporate data directly from your company’s client computers to an ...

Free software leader Richard Stallman claims Ubuntu amounts to spyware with Amazon search integrated into the “dash” of its Unity interface. He is calling for developers to shun the open-source ...

Like the most dangerous and devious phishing attacks, this one is based on a Web site. Users enticed here face a fake portrayal of Microsoft's Windows Security Center. The bogus site displays such ...