SearchMyFile is a program that allows you to search for files on your computer. This program is also bundled with adware programs that displays a constant stream of advertisements in the user's ...

Speedycar is an potentially unwanted game that allows you to race around a car and collect coins. What is not disclosed, is that this program also includes an adware component that displays ...

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has announced that New York has reached ground-breaking settlements with three major online advertisers for promoting products and services on the Internet through ...

WASHINGTON--Backers of a new plan to police downloads believe it will put an end to unwanted software that launches pop-up ads and hogs system resources. But critics counter that the program will ...

A new Trojan horse program that attacks and removes troublesome advertising software, known as adware, is circulating on the Internet, according to antivirus company Symantec Corp. The program, called ...

Toyota Motor executives are adamant about respecting their customers' privacy, and they say they won't alienate buyers with Web monitoring and other controversial online marketing tactics. So they ...

Web surfers battling "spyware" face a new problem: so-called spyware-killing programs that install the same kind of unwanted advertising software they promise to erase. Web surfers battling "spyware" ...

Companies that use free software downloads to target Web surfers with annoying ads are turning on each other to keep customers--and the cash they generate--for themselves. The tactic is in the ...

A well-known adware program is preventing users from installing antivirus products by leveraging a Windows feature that was designed for security. The program, known as Vonteera, abuses the digital ...

As the word "adware" became part of the public lexicon last year, so too did the problems posed by that type of software, according to McAfee, an Internet security company. McAfee, which sells ...

Most of us know that not all online advertising is created equal. This includes desktop publishing, in which there’s a fine line between doing it ethically and doing it unethically. On one side, you ...