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 ...

When you think of malware, it's understandable if your mind first goes to elite hackers launching sophisticated dragnets. But unless you're being targeted by a nation-state or advanced crime syndicate ...

UPDATE, Sept. 7, 11:58 a.m. ET: Apple appears to have removed Adware Doctor from the Mac App Store a few hours after this story was published. The app is not available on the store anymore. A popular ...

Adware Pro is a rogue security program from the family as AntiVirusPro. This family of rogues uses the same interface but releases new software with different names. All of the programs are exactly ...

Many people think of adware as a form of malware, but that's not necessarily true. Adware is software that helps serve advertisements to you on your computer, usually within a web browser (though ads ...

Google needs to up its game in combating malicious apps on the Play Store based on Avast's latest findings. The security vendor discovered, with the help of Apklab.io, that 47 gaming apps on Google ...

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 ...

If you’re using an LG monitor and you suddenly see blaring ads for McAfee scam protection, it’s not because your PC’s been hacked (or, rather, not hacked by some unknown third party). LG, the maker of ...

I bring up this question because adware company reps and adware apologists have been known to make statements about anti-spyware zealots (like myself, admittedly), that we think "our views are the ...

Lenovo’s been caught going a bit too far in its quest for bloatware money, and the results have put its users at risk. The company has been preloading Superfish, a “visual search” tool that includes ...

While providers of adware, or software-based marketing tools, continue to nudge their way into the reluctant embrace of online marketers, consumers have not been shy about speaking out against them, ...

The type of dangerous adware that Lenovo pre-loaded on PCs earlier this year will soon be banned entirely from Windows devices. In a post on its TechNet blog (via Engadget), Microsoft said it will no ...