MirageISO is an unwanted adware & affiliate program that on allows you to mount ISOs as a drive a letter on the computer. It also, though, connects to remote sites and pulls down configuration files ...

QIPApp is a Russian adware program that opens your browser at random intervals to display Russian advertisements. The ads that are displayed will typically be about how to earn money, adult sites, ...

Apple Macs are not immune to malicious attacks, but outside of some major nation-state efforts, bad actors continue to use adware as the method of choice to make money from infecting the macOS ...

In 2014, Lenovo began bundling a third-party adware program called “Superfish” into its consumer PCs. Now, nearly three years later, the company is facing the consequences. Today, Lenovo settled a ...

Although a proprietary closed-source operating system, Windows also plays host to a suite of popular open source software, many of them providing functionality that's hard to find from proprietary ...

An instant software update turned an adware program into an antivirus (AV) destroyer, priming nearly 24,000 computer systems on five continents for follow-on cyberattacks. People tend to view adware, ...

WASHINGTON--Backers of a new plan to police downloads believe it will put an end to unwanted software that launches pop-up ads and hogs system resources. But critics counter that the program will ...

A new Trojan horse program that attacks and removes troublesome advertising software, known as adware, is circulating on the Internet, according to antivirus company Symantec Corp. The program, called ...

Companies that use free software downloads to target Web surfers with annoying ads are turning on each other to keep customers--and the cash they generate--for themselves. The tactic is in the ...

Internet Explorer has built-in tools to fend-off unwanted pop-up windows. But some sophisticated pop-ups can work around the preventative measures. Pop-ups have been an everlasting nuisance for many ...