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unusual facts about CA Anti-Spyware


CA Anti-Spyware

In 2007, the CA Anti-Spyware team was instrumental in exposing the fact that Facebook was collecting personal information about their users, without their knowledge, even when those users opted out of Facebook's ill-fated Beacon program, and even when those users were not logged into Facebook.


Bleeping Computer

All services to the public are free, including malware and rootkit cleanup of infected computers and removal instructions on rogue anti-spyware programs.

Christopher Boyd

This technique is used heavily today by the groups behind the spyware CoolWebSearch (CWS).

Criticism of Yahoo!

The frequency of advertising pop-ups for spyware, generated from a partnership with advertising distributor Walnut Ventures, who had a direct partnership with Direct Revenue, could be increased or decreased based on Yahoo!’s immediate revenue needs, according to some former employees in Yahoo!’s sales department.

Cross-zone scripting

This type of vulnerability has been exploited to silently install various malware (such as spyware, remote control software, worms and such) onto computers browsing a malicious web page.

Marcus Williamson

In 2009 the AIM-listed spyware company Phorm created a website Stopphoulplay.com to attack Williamson and fellow campaigner Alexander Hanff.

Microsoft Active Protection Service

Microsoft Active Protection Service (abbreviated MAPS and formerly known as Microsoft SpyNet) is the network of Windows Defender and Microsoft Security Essentials users that help determine which programs are classified as spyware.

Take Back The Tech!

For example, the use of social networking platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to track a person's activity and movements, the use of spyware to monitor a person's computer and Internet use, and the use of global satellite positioning devices to track a person's physical movement and location, usually by a domestic violence abuser.

Unfairness doctrine

The FTC has recently invoked the doctrine against Spyware.


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