Many spyware programs on today’s market, regardless of being free or commercial, concentrate on the removal of spyware and other forms of malware on the PC system. Only a few try to block spyware before it makes its way on to the computer. Spyware Blaster focuses on preventing attacks from happening in the first place. [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

The developers of the popular antispyware scanner and cleaner Spybot-Search & Destroy have released a first public beta version of the soon to be released version 2.0 of the application. You will notice right away that the Spybot application has turned into a heavyweight over the years. The 66 Megabyte download indicates this already, and [...]

Categories: Security, Software, Spyware, Windows

SUPERAntiSpyware is available as a free and professional edition. Both editions are downloadable directly from the developer website. Lets take a quick look at the differences between SUPERAntiSpyware Professional and SUPERAntiSpyware Free. Both editions support the detection and removal of all sorts of malicious programs including malware, trojans, worms or keyloggers. Users can add files [...]

Categories: Security, Software, Windows

Experienced computer users usually have an understanding of what is going on in the background of their computer system. This includes the processes and files that are running on the computer which makes identification of unknown files easier. But even those users have a hard time keeping up with all the processes and dll files [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Malware and spyware are two of the biggest privacy and security threats that computer users face these days. This ranges from – relatively – harmless tracking cookies that track a computer user’s activity on the Internet to trojans and worms that steal, modify or delete data. Anti-spyware software should therefor be an integral part of [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Hijack This is probably one of the most popular security tools to scan a computer system for spyware and suspicious files. It’s rather cryptic reports makes it sometimes difficulty to distinguish between harmless and potentially dangerous files on the computer system. That’s what the comparable software program Free Fixer tries to make better Free Fixer [...]

Categories: Software, Spyware, Windows

Security researchers at Trendmicro have discovered a spyware that is installing itself as an add-on in the popular web browser Firefox. The add-on, which is then listed in the Firefox add-on list, is named Adobe Flash Player 0.2. This add-on uses a description that links itself to Adobe Flash Player 10, that looks legit at [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Many spyware infections happen on specifically prepared websites. These websites might exploit web browser vulnerabilities or offer software and files for download that infect a computer system once they are executed on it. Web users have several protection mechanisms that they can use to protect their computer system from these spyware infections. Modern antivirus software [...]

Categories: Security, Software, Windows

There are hundreds if not thousands of free spyware removal tools for the Windows operating system. The choice ranges from to popular spyware removal tools such as Windows Defender, Spybot Search And Destroy or Spyware Terminator to lesser known anti spyware software programs and even so called rogue applications that look like spyware removal tools [...]

Categories: Software, Spyware, Windows