Spyware rarely announces itself with pop-ups or flashing warnings. It slips into everyday routines, quietly tracking what you type, where you click, and which accounts you open, often for months ...

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Microsoft Thursday released a free trial copy of anti-spyware software it purchased last month, marking the company’s entry into the fast-growing market for products that block surreptitious snooping ...

Spyware, malware, adware, phishing: real problems, or just marketing tools used by LTN-Security vendors that are trying to capitalize on your fear? They present real threats, asserted both the ...

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Microsoft has purchased Giant Company Software, a small anti-spyware software company it hopes will shore up its security defenses. Microsoft declined to say how much it paid for the 10-person company ...

Microsoft Corp. gave an official name to its software for protecting computer users against spyware. The software, which has been known as Windows AntiSpyware Beta 1, will be called Windows Defender ...

Spyware legislation that would allow fines of up to $3 million for makers of software that steals personal information from a user’s computer or hijacks its browser will get a second look after the ...

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