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There Is No Baby In The Bath Water

I attended a Spyware Workshop yesterday in Manhatten. It was held in a small amphitheater in the Museum of Television and Radio. It was hosted by the Network Advertising Initiative and one of its founding members Doubleclick. Because of last minute cancellations on the part of CA...

Tags: Adware, Advertisement, Tracking Cookie, Advertiser, Anti-spyware, NAI, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Richard Stiennon

Blog posts 2005-05-13

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Free Security Manager 1.5 (Windows)

Free Security Manager is a free and useful utility package to remove spyware, tracking, and advertising cookies, harmful programs and viruses, and clear away useless files. Free Security Manager contains several programs which performs smart cookie scans, handles caches, temp files, history, useless files, and malware. The package also includes...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Security Manager, Cookie, Businex Network, Security Administration, Security

Software downloads 2009-10-12

Easy SpaceGuard 1.5.4 (Windows)

Easy SpaceGuard with Integrated Shredder prevents others from tracking your Internet Web browsing activity. Eliminate wastes from your system by removing temporary files, history files, cache, and other Web browsing activities in:Internet Explorer, Netscape, Firefox, Opera Browsers, Microsoft Media Player, RealOne Player, Kazaa, Morpheus, Chat programs, AOL, office applications and...

Tags: File, Easynetsoft, Identity Theft, Web Browsers, Microsoft Windows, Digital Media, Digital Music, Internet, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-05

MacScan 2.7 (Mac)

MacScan detects, isolates, and removes spyware applications such as keystroke loggers, and trojan horses to protection your Macintosh. Blacklisted cookie scanner removes tracking cookies without saved usernames or passwords. MacScan cleans Internet files, cookies and history. Keep up-to-date with live downloadable spyware definitions and product updates. MacScan will isolate all...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Cookie, MacScan, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security

Software downloads 2009-09-09

Microsoft steps up its business push for Windows 7, related products

Why do I want Windows 7?This is a serious question. I've been using XP Pro for a while now, and am pretty happy with it. It works well, and doesn't seem to give me many problems.I don't understand what Windows 7 brings to the table. I don't...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2009-09-02

Rule change will bring Web 2.0 to federal sites

There's Internet time. And then there's government time. In the case of cookies, the two are wildly divergent. Back in 2000 (that was the year of IE 5 and Netscape 6 and we were four years from Firefox 1.0), regulations were passed that banned government websites from using cookies. That...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Privacy, Web Site, Cookie, Government, Web Site Development, Vertical Industries, Web Technology, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-11

Free Security Manager 1.0 (Windows)

Free Security Manager is a free and useful utility package to remove spyware, tracking, and advertising cookies, harmful programs and viruses, and clear away useless files. Free Security Manager contains several programs which performs smart cookie scans, handles caches, temp files, history, useless files, and malware. The package also includes...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Security Manager, Cookie, Renpou, Security Administration, Security

Software downloads 2009-06-29

AIO Security Manager 1.5 (Windows)

AIO Security Manager is a useful utility package to remove spyware, tracking and advertising cookies, harmful programs and viruses, and clear away useless files. This software contains several programs which performs smart cookie scans, handles caches, temp files, history, useless files, and malware. The package also includes a Quick Fix...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Cookie, 3GPConvert, AIO Security Manager

Software downloads 2009-06-13

My Privacy 4.0 (Windows)

Analyze your privacy vulnerability! My Privacy - is a software application intended for probing the confidential information stored on your computer on its vulnerability to unauthorized access by hackers. Your computer may contain private information which you have long forgotten about. These may include your credit card information, login names,...

Tags: Software, Vulnerability, Privacy, Microsoft Windows, Computer, Cookie, Smart PC Solutions, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Security, Management

Software downloads 2009-05-27

Conficker: a good excuse for an early spring cleaning

Conficker: a good excuse for an early spring cleaningLOL!That's a good April Fools joke right there!A wise choice!You can't go wrong with it! If Loverock recommends it then it must be good.I'll stick with my Antivirus XP 2009, thanks.I'm KIDDING! :pVery Poor RecommendationsCommercial Anti-virus: You recommend ESET NOD32 and...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, Spyware, adware & malware, Spyware, SECURITY, OPEN SOURCE, clamAV, Conficker, antivirus, Clam AV, early Spring, Norton 360, good excuse, actualy, virus

Discussion threads 2009-03-27

sQusi Tracking Plus 2.17 (Windows)

sQusi is both a free Internet Explorer add-on and a Firefox extension in one package. It is designed to take the clutter out of browsing and to prevent sites such as Facebook.com from tagging and tracking you across the Web. sQusi combines a continuously updated global database with a local...

Tags: Microsoft Internet Explorer, GCNet, sQusi, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Software, Internet

Software downloads 2008-11-03

News to know: Windows 7 Beta; Google; $2,000 PC; Gates & Seinfeld; iTunes 8 fix

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Secunia launches pay-as-you-go exploit shop Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The $2,000 build-it-yourself gaming/video editing/photo editing PC Gallery: The $2,000 build-it-yourself gaming/video editing/photo...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, PC, Apple Inc., Video, Beta, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Apple iTunes, Corporate Communications, Microsoft Windows, Wiki, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-09-12

Google's Chrome browser: It's all about the ads and cookie files stupid!

Google's Chrome browser: It's all about the ads and cookie files stupid!Yes, it is about ads and cookies, but also a whole lot more.With this, Google can bring us into the 21st century all based on standards and open source. Microsoft wants to keep the browser in the 20th century,...

Tags: Web browsers, Google Inc., cookie, Google Chrome, Web browser, advertisement, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

Google tells Congress about DoubleClick cookie

Google tells Congress about DoubleClick cookieWho wants ads at all?Quite frankly I don't want any ads at all. Further more I actively use multiple tools to remove any trace of ads from my web experience.I don't think advertisers fully appreciate the *NEGATIVE* connotations that their advertisements give.That is, if they...

Tags: Taxachusetts, advertisement, DoubleClick Inc., DoubleClick cookie, cookie, Google Inc., U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2008-08-12

News to know: Google; Web Olympics; Patch Tuesday; iPhone

Notable headlines: Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Will the Olympics melt the Internet? Time Warner's Olympic boost, courtesy NBC More worries for Beijing visitors Phil Wainewright: Hello, Google, is anyone in there? Larry Dignan: Google: Our AOL investment is ‘impaired’ ...

Tags: apple iphone, google inc., web, larry dignan, health care, internet, vertical industries, benefits, e-mail, healthcare, microsoft windows vista (longhorn), enterprise software, software, human resources, online communications, operating systems, microsoft windows

Blog posts 2008-08-08

Google doubles its cookie tracking: Will you opt out?

Google doubles its cookie tracking: Will you opt out?Choice CNo need to opt out, I already block Double Click and will continue to do so.RE: Google doubles its cookie tracking: Will you opt out?I have doubleclick routed to nowhere in my hosts file.RE: Google doubles its cookie tracking: Will you...

Tags: cookie, Google Inc., DoubleClick Inc., advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-08-07

Google doubles its cookie tracking: Will you opt out?

Google on Thursday rolled out improvements to its ad network and will add DoubleClick tracking across its sites. Google also made it easy to opt out of its double dose of cookies with one click. The larger question is whether users will choose to go cookie free. ...

Tags: google inc., advertisement, doubleclick inc., cookie, larry dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-07

A Modest Privacy Proposal

The Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee is holding a hearing tomorrow on Privacy Implications of Online Advertising. Appearing before the committee headed by long-time Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) are lawyers for Google and Microsoft, as well as Facebook's chief privacy officer -- and Robert R. Dykes, the chairman...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Internet Service Provider, Service Provider, Internet Service, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Business Services, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-08

The peril of panels: Can Web traffic stats be trusted?

The peril of panels: Can Web traffic stats be trusted?Surely internal are fairerI would not disagree that they aren't inflated by the factors listed . But surely they are inflated to a similar extent irrespective of the website being measured.Surely that makes them a less subjective comaparive measure.RE: The peril...

Tags: Channel management, ComScore Networks Inc., Web

Discussion threads 2007-12-14

Find My Credit Card for U3 2.3 (Windows)

Find My Credit Card is a software application intended for probing the confidential information stored on your computer on its vulnerability to unauthorized access by hackers. Perhaps, you have no idea that your computer may contain your private information which you have long forgotten about. These may include your credit...

Tags: Credit Card, Microsoft Windows, Cookie, Smart PC Solutions, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales

Software downloads 2007-12-04