Google has struggled for years to keep malicious applications from sneaking into the Play Store, but a new round of takedowns is highlighting the challenge of getting the problem under control. At the ...

Crusader is an adware program that displays advertisements, modifies text in search results, and displays tech support scam alerts depending on the web sites that you are visiting. This adware ...

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If you’ve ever downloaded software, chances are you’ve experienced an all-too-common surprise: ads or other unwanted programs that tagged along for the ride, only to pop up on your PC uninvited. Turns ...

Commentary--There is a lot of confusion among Internet users as to the difference between adware and spyware. Adware--generally defined as software installed by consenting users seeking free, ...

If you’re seeing irritating ads pop-up in your browser, your homepage has been changed to some strange search engine, or your computer is suddenly slow, you’ve been targeted by adware. Adware is ...

We detected a large adware campaign running for about a year, with the involved apps installed eight million times from Google Play alone. We identified 42 apps on Google Play as belonging to the ...

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Scammy programs and browser extensions are a persistent problem on the web, but web companies are starting to take them seriously as a threat to the web. In a post today, Google surveyed the past year ...

Researchers say that 14.8 percent of Android users who were targeted with mobile malware or adware last year were left with undeletable files. A healthy percentage of Android users targeted by mobile ...

A unique form of advanced persistent adware (APA) recently found by the Booz Allen Dark Labs’ Advanced Threat Hunt team is lurking on enterprise networks and can evade traditional forms of ...

In order to remove Firefox Defender Adware Addon completely you will need to reset Chrome back to its initial settings. Doing these steps will erase all configuration information from Chrome such as ...