As technology advances and more people come to rely on the Internet for information, leisure and business, it seems as if keeping your computer free of advertising is a daunting task. Not technically ...

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The malicious apps were not listed on the official Google Play Store and were instead found on third-party app store websites discoverable via Google Search, according to Bitdefender. Our team tests, ...

The Google Play Store is not the impregnable fortress that Google wants people to believe it is. Sometimes, malware slips through. Most of the security reports you'll read about malware making it on ...

There are legitimate uses for advertising bots, but all too often the technology is used in ways that make them malware or spyware. There are any number of ways that adware, or adbots, can get into ...

Google has recently removed 22 Android apps from the Play Store. The apps were removed for abusing Android devices to load and click on ads behind the users' backs. Also: Best Green Monday 2018 deals: ...

While I’m willing to bet that you probably haven’t downloaded any adware from the Google Play Store recently, a new report from ESET indicates that various Android users have downloaded 42 different ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- The days of computer users claiming virus problems were strictly a PC-only problem are gone. More and more OS X users are falling victim to various adware and spyware infections, ...

Security researchers have found dozens of Android apps in the Google Play store serving ads to unsuspecting victims as part of a money-making scheme. ESET researchers found 42 apps containing adware, ...

The spyware problem is unlikely to go away anytime soon, because the bundling of spyware and adware programs is the established revenue model for distributors of free software programs on the Web. In ...