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

Key loggers are a particularly nasty type of malware, because they are created to monitor and record keyboard activities. They are often designed to capture the victim’s interactions with a login form of some kind, frequently targeting logon credentials for banking websites. NetSpy, identified by this spyware scan, is known to be able to log

A specially crafted HTML document can cause Internet Explorer to skip the kill bit check. This means that any ActiveX control that has been disabled solely through use of the kill bit may still be used by Internet Explorer. A kill bit is a registry setting that prevents Internet Explorer from running the corresponding ActiveX