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Morpheus tracks user surfing habits
News The company on Tuesday said it has begun installing a Web browser add-on that sends some Morpheus users on an invisible Web detour aimed at capturing data about file swappers' surfing habits. StreamCast Networks, distributor of the popular Morpheus...
[March 20, 2002, 9:52]
Mozilla browser to learn from surfing habits
News Mozilla.org, an open-source browser project backed by AOL Time Warner's Netscape unit, has released a new test version of its software, introducing some new features and a scheme to improve the browser's auto-complete feature.
[February 11, 2003, 15:44]
Google to base ads on surfing behaviour
News But the beta test of what Google calls "interest-based" advertising will take a wider view of the user's surfing habits to target served ads even more accurately. By visiting Google's ad-preferences page, the user can opt out of having their...
[March 11, 2009, 11:19]
Google Desktop 2 review
Reviews Google Desktop 2 may not please you if you feel too uneasy to entrust your computing and surfing habits to an outside party. Because we allowed Advanced Features to track our Web-surfing habits, Sidebar rotated through our content, with mixed results.
[November 7, 2005, 9:40]
ISPs, lawmakers debate ad-privacy regulations
News The ISPs urged committee members to forgo passing new laws to regulate the use of targeted online advertising, instead advocating for a self-regulation of the industry to keep consumers' web-surfing habits secure and private.
[September 26, 2008, 10:14]
Internet marketeer faces spam charges
Talkback The privacy of the user is violated by installing various spy wares and cookies that keep a record of the surfing habits of the users. These surfing habits are then sold to the advertisers and internet marketeers who then use it for spamming purposes.
[June 23, 2005, 16:46]
Porn sites remain hot in the workplace
News Workers are always amazed to find out how easy it is for their surfing habits to be tracked by company management, Yip said. Other executives interviewed expressed doubts that they will ever be faced with having to discipline a worker for X-rated...
[October 31, 1997, 9:18]
Adware company loses its links
News Outside of the search flap, WhenU is already the subject of a thorny debate over the legality of software used to monitor Web surfing habits and deliver ads -- or what's called adware. It sells ads that can be targeted to people's tastes, thanks to...
[May 14, 2004, 13:00]
Cyberslacking pays handsomely for some
News At the Productivity Summit 2000: Cyberslacking at Work on Thursday, he released a new IDC white paper, "Employee Internet Management", which mapped out the current and future thinking on Net access control -- from Web filtering to real-time...
[March 11, 2000, 6:57]
Surfing in the UK is cool -- official
News The online Internet survey looked at the surfing habits of over 2,000 parents and children and the message is -- families are embracing the cyber age. For 80 percent of cyber-teens, the average time online -- up to an hour -- is not enough and 23...
[July 9, 1999, 9:57]
A Year Ago: Surfing in the UK is cool -- official
News The online Internet survey looked at the surfing habits of over 2,000 parents and children and the message is -- families are embracing the cyber age. For 80 percent of cyber-teens, the average time online -- up to an hour -- is not enough and 23...
[July 11, 2000, 7:02]
La Boss Key
Downloads Keep your Internet surfing habits, email, and application uses private. A simple yet powerful tool for your privacy and productivity needs. Unexpected visits and interruptions are handled gracefully, no awkward moments.
[July 12, 2006, 11:35]
News Burst: PowerChannel to give away two million set-top boxes
News PowerChannel will sell these details and information about its users' surfing habits on to other firms. Two million UK consumers will be given free set-top boxes to surf the Internet by PowerChannel over the next three years, in return for...
[October 30, 2000, 10:34]
Spyware, Kiss Privacy Good-Bye: Part 4 - Anti-Spyware Resources
White Papers Without one's knowledge, spyware is sitting there, using the computer's resources, logging one's keystrokes, tracking one's Internet surfing habits, and relaying information to others. Some forms of spyware may actually change the computer...
[May 4, 2006, 0:00]
Dynamic Spyware Analysis
White Papers Once active, it silently monitors the behavior of users, records their web surfing habits, and steals their passwords. Spyware is a class of malicious code that is surreptitiously installed on victims' machines.
[July 6, 2007, 1:00]
NebuAd in the dock
Blog People are angry that they had their web-surfing habits tracked, said the article, and are demanding compensation to the tune of $5m. Targeted behavioural advertising company NebuAd is the subject of a class action lawsuit in the US, according to...
[November 14, 2008, 13:39]
Wikimedia Foundation turns down Phorm
Blog Comment I'd happily bet that if there is going to be any "snooping" done on peoples surfing habits, then it's going to be done in a covert/sneaky kind of way. What the hell did they expect? Far too open for such a project to succeed.
[April 19, 2009, 0:39]
Introduction, Risks, and Threats
White Papers Without one's knowledge, spyware is sitting there, using the computer's resources, logging one's keystrokes, tracking one's Internet surfing habits, and relaying information to others. As a leading business executive, one understands the importance...
[June 9, 2006, 0:00]
Wikimedia Foundation turns down Phorm
Blog Comment Just seems bizzare not to expect a reaction when you shout from the roof tops that you have a business model based on intercepting surfing habits. Ah yes a little hot under the collar with that one. Then again maybe that's part of a plan to draw in...
[April 19, 2009, 19:08]
Malware Sweeper Free
Downloads SpyWare apps, often installed without your knowledge, send information about your surfing habits to ad companies, which, in turn, send you more pop-up ads. Scan and safely remove Adware, SpyWare, Key Loggers, Trojans, Dialers, Hijackers, malware...
[July 3, 2006, 12:10]
