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 ...

GTFSISSETON Updater is a component of the Vidsquare adware program. While the Vidsquare executables are responsible for displaying advertisements on the computer, this component is used as an updater.

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 ...

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 ...

Adware company Direct Revenue, like rival adware companies, often has found itself on the defensive--faced with consumer complaints about ad-serving software that ended up on their computers without ...

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 ...

Web surfers battling "spyware" face a new problem: so-called spyware-killing programs that install the same kind of unwanted advertising software they promise to erase. Web surfers battling "spyware" ...

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 ...