• June 2 Spyware Weekly Is Out

06/02/2005 01:55 PM

Table of Contents

1. I Love The Smell Of Spyware Burning In The Morning
2. Feature - Spycop
3. Clean and Infected File Sharing Programs
4. Headlines

• May 25 Spyware Weekly Is Out

05/25/2005 10:55 PM

Table of Contents

1. Analysis of the SPY ACT
2. Feature - Window Washer
3. CoolWebSearch: "We were framed!"
4. Adobe Reader and the Yahoo Toolbar
5. Free A Frozen Computer
6. Transfer To Wordpress Nearing Completion

• New Article - CoolWebSearch: "We Were Framed!"

05/24/2005 08:55 PM

This is perhaps the most bizarre piece of news to land in my inbox in a long time. CoolWebSearch is claiming to have gone legit.

Pick yourself up off the floor and get back in your chair. I'm serious here.

• March 13 Spyware Weekly Is Out

03/13/2005 09:06 AM

Table of Contents

1. Epidemic Of Firefox Spyware Infecting Computers Worldwide!
2. Feature - Evidence Terminator
3. iDownload Threatens Lawsuits To Silence Critics
4. Web Sites For Children Most Likely To Install Spyware
5. Gov Agency Forbids Anonymous Domain Ownership
6. Looking For Some People...
7. Backdoor Access To Windows Firewall
8. Kiss Your Anonymity Goodbye
9. AOL Kicks Adware Companies To The Curb
10. Funny Business In Antispywareland

• Leading Antispyware Vendors Quietly Drop WhenU Detection

02/14/2005 12:38 AM
It appears that two popular antispyware companies, PestPatrol (owned by Computer Associates) and Lavasoft, have stopped detecting software from WhenU. In tests performed recently by Eric Howes, using the latest updated target database files, neither PestPatrol nor Ad-aware detected any software from WhenU.

• Feb 3, 2005 Spyware Weekly

02/12/2005 08:00 PM

Table of Contents

1. Antispyware Consortium Implodes
2. Feature - Registry Mechanic
3. On The Road Again.....
4. Kazaa Logs All User Downloads and Searches
5. Headlines

If This new entry messes up anyone's RSS reader or looks wrong, please let me know. I already see that it looks wrong in Trillian's RSS reader. mike@spywareinfo.com

• Antispyware Consortium Implodes

02/04/2005 11:30 PM
The Consortium of Anti-Spyware Technology Vendors (COAST) appears to be undergoing a messy self-destruction today. Two of COAST's founding members, Webroot Software and Aluria Software, withdrew as members of the consortium on Friday. Another founding member, Lavasoft, withdrew from COAST in December 2003. All three companies cited concerns about the direction in which COAST was heading as reasons for severing ties with the group.

• Feb 3, 2005 Spyware Weekly

02/03/2005 04:24 PM

Table of Contents

1. Keyloggers In The News
2. Feature - Registry Mechanic
3. SPY ACT To Exclude Tracking Cookies
4. How To Block Third Party Tracking Cookies
5. Kazaa CTO: Sharman Employees Hate Kazaa
6. Google Blocks Viruses From Search Engine
7. Stupid Administrators and Their Stupid Filters
8. Headlines

If This new entry messes up anyone's RSS reader or looks wrong, please let me know. I already see that it looks wrong in Trillian's RSS reader. mike@spywareinfo.com

• Jan 27, 2005 Spyware Weekly

02/02/2005 11:10 AM
Microsoft To Deny Updates To Pirates: Microsoft soon will block pirated copies of Windows from being able to install security and bug updates. Initially, people with illegitimate copies of Windows still will be able to use the automatic update function built into Windows. Eventually, I predict, that also will end.

• Jan 19, 2005 Spyware Weekly

01/19/2005 02:22 PM
Digital Restriction Management (DRM) is software designed to limit what you can do with digital products such as software programs, digital music and movies. Most commonly DRM attempts to prevent copying of software, such as ripping CD music into MP3 files.