Tag: BADWARE

Earlier this week, the folks over at Sunbelt noted that Twitter was working on a new feature. While there's nothing posted to blog.twitter.com about the development, it's no secret that their developers have started giving the bird to malicious links. As of now, Twitter's blocking powers are pretty limited. On a good note, the services appears to be tied in to Google's Safe Browsing service. ...

AOL has been blacklisted on StopBadware.org due to the main fact that it installs additional software with AOL 9.0 without telling the user. The test of the free AOL 9.0 that StopBadware.org tested, reportedly got the bad grade because AOL did not live up to their "rich legacy" as stated by StopBadware.org co-director John Palfrey. Palfrey says this was the only reason why AOL had got dumped into ...

BBC News is reporting that five computer security firms, ICSA Labs, McAfee, Symantec, Thompson Cyber Security Labs, and Trend Micro, are joining forces to combat spyware. The partnership, which has yet to be given a snappy name, will be collaborating to create a common naming system for spyware and cooperating to create tools to stop spyware. The companies, which say the amount of spyware in ...