Slashdot Items Tagged "adware"

Date / Time Story
Tuesday October 12, 2021 @03:42PM Adobe Uses DMCA To Nuke Project That Keeps Flash Alive, Secure and Adware Free
Tuesday February 18, 2020 @12:48PM 'The Paywalled Garden: iOS is Adware'
Tuesday April 23, 2019 @07:24PM Malicious Lifestyle Apps Found On Google Play, 30 Million Installs Recorded
Friday March 15, 2019 @04:42PM Google Play Apps With 150 Million Installs Contain Aggressive Adware
Tuesday January 08, 2019 @05:27PM Google Removes 85 Adware Apps That Were Installed By Millions of Users
Tuesday September 05, 2017 @01:14PM Lenovo Won't Pay a Fine For Preinstalling Superfish Adware
Thursday August 24, 2017 @06:03PM Fake Messages Rigged With Malware Are Spreading Via Facebook Messenger
Friday July 14, 2017 @02:03PM Popular Chrome Extension Sold To New Dev Who Immediately Turns It Into Adware
Tuesday May 10, 2016 @02:16PM Latest Update to ES File Explorer Android App Brings Adware To Your Lockscreen
Monday March 14, 2016 @07:50PM Typosquatters Running .om Domain Scam To Push Mac Malware
Tuesday November 17, 2015 @09:11AM Snowden Says It's Your Duty To Use an Ad Blocker (for Security)
Saturday August 01, 2015 @03:23PM Ask Slashdot: Can You Disable Windows 10's Privacy-Invading Features?
Saturday August 01, 2015 @02:03PM In Windows 10, Ad-Free Solitaire Will Cost You $10 -- Every Year
Monday June 01, 2015 @06:38PM SourceForge and GIMP [Updated]
Sunday March 08, 2015 @09:39AM Lenovo Still Shipping Laptops With Superfish
Friday February 20, 2015 @07:57PM Homeland Security Urges Lenovo Customers To Remove Superfish
Thursday February 19, 2015 @03:24PM Superfish Security Certificate Password Cracked, Creating New Attack Vector
Thursday March 21, 2013 @01:36PM New OS X Trojan Adware Injects Ads Into Chrome, Firefox, Safari
Tuesday March 20, 2012 @11:55AM Mobile Ads May Serve As a Malware Conduit
Friday December 09, 2011 @07:14PM Cnet Apologizes For Nmap Adware Mess
Saturday October 10, 2009 @06:28PM Microsoft Readies Ad-Supported Office Starter 2010
Sunday September 13, 2009 @07:46PM New York Times Site Pop-Up Says Your Computer Is Infected
Sunday April 20, 2008 @02:39AM Microsoft Quietly Offering Ad-Funded Version of Works
Saturday April 19, 2008 @05:14PM NBC to Create Programs Centered on Sponsors
Friday September 14, 2007 @03:58AM Microsoft Seeks Another OS-Level Adware Patent
Tuesday January 30, 2007 @04:08PM Cingular, Others Fined For Using Adware
Sunday November 05, 2006 @09:47AM FTC Fines Zango $3 Million
Saturday October 07, 2006 @09:18AM Microsoft Gives MVP Award to Adware Pusher
Friday August 04, 2006 @07:42PM The Ad-Supported Operating System
Thursday July 20, 2006 @08:09PM Banner Ad on Myspace Serves Adware to 1 Million
Tuesday July 11, 2006 @02:02PM Adware Spreads Through Myspace
Monday July 10, 2006 @01:21AM A Day in the Life of a Spyware Company
Saturday April 29, 2006 @08:17PM Azureus Inc. Moves Toward Commercialization
Monday April 03, 2006 @11:02AM An Interview with 180 Solutions
Saturday February 18, 2006 @03:54PM Interview with a Botmaster