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For all the technology on display at InfoSecurity Europe this week it seems the biggest problem plaguing IT directors is still the largely non-technical issue of end-users and their ability to undermine even the most robust security.

Posted by Greg Hewitt-Long in Adware, Spyware and Trojans at 22:22

Identity theft is on the rise, and phishing - e-mail scams disguised as legitimate correspondence - has risen to epidemic proportions. Now, phishing's newest mutation, called "pharming," poses a more insidious threat.

Posted by Greg Hewitt-Long in Adware, Spyware and Trojans at 22:17

CNET's download.com has banned adware-supported programs on its site and has already eliminated close to 600 of them, the company announced Thursday. CNET said the move was an expansion of a long-established policy against any software that could inhibit user control and privacy, MediaPost reports. Software publishers were notified earlier this month and given three weeks to remove adware from their products, said CNET. The announcement coincided with NY State Attorney General Spitzer's initiation of a suit against adware firm Intermix.

Posted by Greg Hewitt-Long in Adware, Spyware and Trojans at 21:10

In what could be a landmark lawsuit, New York Attorney General, Eliot Spitzer, has now taken on a Los Angeles company allegedly responsible for installing adware applications on 3 million New Yorkers' computers.

Spitzer's office sued Los Angeles-based Intermix Media Inc., claiming the company secretly installed its software on millions of home computers, including PCs of more than 3 million New Yorkers.

Posted by Greg Hewitt-Long in Adware, Spyware and Trojans at 20:55