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| Thread ID: 80519 | 2007-06-26 03:11:00 | Banks demand a look inside your PC | Chris Keall (10417) | Press F1 |
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| 563088 | 2007-06-28 06:18:00 | I'd suggest that your kids are visiting other sites as well. You would be suggesting wrong. |
porkster (6331) | ||
| 563089 | 2007-06-28 06:33:00 | As my collegue, Computerworld editor Rob O'Neill points out (blogs.pcworld.co.nz): "I find security hard - imagine how pensioners feel? Then perhaps he should go edit the Womans Weekly instead. And why pensioners? I know plenty of PC smart pensioners. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 563090 | 2007-06-28 07:59:00 | You would be suggesting wrong. OK what's your definition of a keylogger? Advertising is one thing but a "popular kids site" that allowed malicious software downloads would be a dodgy site as far as I'm concerned. This quote is from a Kraig Lane, group product manager in Symantec's consumer division ""Our testers went to name-brand Web sites, and spent 30 minutes to an hour reading or interacting with sites," said Lane. Testers tried to emulate real-world browser by reading articles, interacting with the site's features, but not explicitly looking to accumulate files by downloading. "Then they ran spyware detection software and counted up what kind of security risks and how many files had been installed on the machines," Lane said. Children were the biggest target for spyware makers, by far. The trip to several kids' sites installed a whopping 359 pieces of adware on Symantec's PCs, five times more than the nearest category rival, travel. Popup ads proliferated on the machines after that, making them virtually unusable. Symantec's test didn't spot any spyware installed on the PC that browsed kids' sites. "That makes sense when you think about it," said Lane. "Kids may be the biggest target for advertisers--they know that children beg their parents to buy things--but kids don't have access to credit cards, which is what spyware makers are after." " |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 563091 | 2007-07-05 20:02:00 | OK what's your definition of a keylogger? It's not my definition of a keylogger, its Xoftspy Software's definition as it reported it. I have also run a few tests with a couple of sites. Pokemoncrater was causing me grief with key loggers, they were even investigating it themselves as they believe it was third party ad scripts doing the biz. About that time I got "noscripts" and have got very little (none so far) key loggers. |
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