StopBadware.org

StopBadware.org is a “Neighborhood Watch” campaign aimed at fighting badware. We will seek to provide reliable, objective information about downloadable applications in order to help consumers to make better choices about what they download on to their computers. We aim to become a central clearinghouse for research on badware and the bad actors who [...]

Spyware Wiki

In the field of computing, the term spyware refers to a broad category of malicious software designed to intercept or take partial control of a computer‘s operation without the informed consent of that machine’s owner or legitimate user. While the term taken literally suggests software that surreptitiously monitors the user, it has come to [...]

Adaware insecure?

A potential security threat against the Ad-Aware antispyware has been discovered. Immediately after discovering the issue, Lavasoft released a solution in the form of the Ad-Aware authenticity check add-on.

Recently Lavasoft was exposed to potential definition file vulnerability. At an early stage Lavasoft’s development team could identify the exposure and adopt the necessary safety [...]

Microsoft Windows Defender vs. Spybot Search and destroy

In Cnet’s Sunday Smackdown Spybot wins the poll by 0.2 points.  

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