Much of the computer security industry acts like spyware is immaculately conceived. Somehow it just appears on computers, we are led to believe, and supposedly all we can do is clean up the mess after it happens, rather than prevent it in the first place. I disagree. Now, we all love Google. I use Google’s

Key loggers are a particularly nasty type of malware, because they are created to monitor and record keyboard activities. They are often designed to capture the victim’s interactions with a login form of some kind, frequently targeting logon credentials for banking websites. NetSpy, identified by this spyware scan, is known to be able to log

A specially crafted HTML document can cause Internet Explorer to skip the kill bit check. This means that any ActiveX control that has been disabled solely through use of the kill bit may still be used by Internet Explorer. A kill bit is a registry setting that prevents Internet Explorer from running the corresponding ActiveX

SunbeltBlog have written about VideoC before We’ve been seeing this for a while now — a file starts to play, then is interrupted with a message that the user needs to install VideoC. Of course, there is no such player called VideoC. Instead, what you get is a big, fat nasty payload of spyware. (a

A new fake security site is starting to show up on anti-spyware help forums Everytime I go inot Internet Explorer it goes to a site called http://www.securitycaution.com/ and says the following: Attention! Your system is under control of remote computer with IP address 227.4.167.118. The remote computer has access to the following folders on your