It won't be long before they discover unpatched entry points or devise new ways to infect your PC. The onus is on you to keep your system patched, protect it with a firewall and anti-virus software, ...

Grisoft's ewido anti-spyware 4.0 costs the same as programs that do a much better job. Some recommend using the scan-only free version as a second opinion, but it flopped in my tests. In April, ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Most people who know me would probably agree that, on the whole, I am a pretty reasonable person willing to ...

Still, though, I had no access to anti-spyware Web sites, and Google search results had a weird habit of repositioning themselves after a few seconds and displaying - surprise - ads at the top of the ...

If you can say one good thing about computer viruses it is that they spring up and die away quite quickly. The well-established ways to defend yourself against them mean you can swiftly find them, fix ...

Trend Micro, the world's third-biggest computer security software maker, on Tuesday said it is buying anti-spyware company InterMute for $15 million, to bolster the security of its own products.

A busy month for Microsoft’s legal team: not only has the European Commission redoubled its efforts to force the software titan to comply with its 2004 antitrust ruling, but it is also being sued by a ...

Fears over spyware have made more than 90% of American net users change their online behaviour, says a study. The dangers are making people swap browsers, avoid file-sharing programs and some websites ...

A virus is a piece of malware that infects a computer, and then replicates itself to be passed onto another computer. A Trojan appears to be a piece of harmless software, often given away for free, ...

Spyware Eliminator detected many of our samples, but only removed half of those it detected. Its threat descriptions are detailed but awkward, and are no longer accessible for items that have been ...