Sunbelt reported about YapBrowser, potentially dangerous application that pre-installs 180Solutions Zango and does nothing but apparently redirect you to a porn site. For example url “microsoft.com” is redirected to a porn page. Also YapBrowser will be used for some very nasty spyware installs. Don`t install YapBrowser!

Heise Online is reporting about yet another example of the ever-warming relationship of copy protection and rootkit technologies. The affair started with the digital rights management system Sony BMG was using to protect audio CD’s. Now, F-Secure can also confirm that at least the German DVD release of the movie “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” contains

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Much of the computer security industry acts like spyware is immaculately conceived. Somehow it just appears on computers, we are led to believe, and supposedly all we can do is clean up the mess after it happens, rather than prevent it in the first place. I disagree. Now, we all love Google. I use Google’s