Internet users worried about spyware and adware are shunning specific websites and avoiding file-sharing networks, even switching browsers. Many had also stopped opening email attachments without ...

Rapidly evolving internet spyware has slowed international efforts to halt the world's descent into cyber-spying chaos. And new legislation is unlikely to play a role in any counterattack. An ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Dale Begg-Smith's name keeps popping up in all the wrong places, like much of the insidious internet ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation Tuesday to combat the criminal use of Internet ...

A survey of about 2,000 internet users in the U.S. showed that more than 84 percent believe they are victims of spyware. Recently released by privacy firm the Ponemon Institute, the survey also showed ...

Internet users have learned to keep an eye out for viruses, worms and "spam" e-mail. Add another online hazard to the list: spyware. Programs that hide in users' computers and secretly monitor their ...

The US House of Representatives has passed the Internet Spyware (I-SPY) Prevention Act, which provides for sentences of up to five years imprisonment for those who introduce certain types of software ...