Accused Piracy Leader Pleads Guilty
News Such software is known as "warez" -- a name for digital content whose copy protection has been cracked by skilled programmers. The FBI went as far as setting up a fake warez site to gather evidence against suspects.
[February 28, 2002, 9:38]
Feds Hijack Illicit Sites
News Rocci used his Web site as the exclusive means to advertise and market the sale of mod chips to individuals in the online warez community," the government said in a statement. He was wrong, and everyone engaged in the warez scene should take note.
[February 27, 2003, 11:18]
US: Warez Crackdown Has Only Just Begun
News The Business Software Alliance (BSA), which represents the software industry's interest in Washington, DC, agrees that warez sites are as big a threat as "true" pirates. Federal officials said new raids targeting Internet "warez" groups are in the...
[December 13, 2001, 10:44]
Ants Inspire P2P Concealment
Talkback P2P is dead as is warez sites but there's lots of ways to "file swap" it's just that swapers are now more careful about how their doing it and who they tell how it's being done.
[February 27, 2004, 0:08]
Service Pack 2: Patching The Unpatchable
Talkback I'm sorry all your friends raid the warez, porn, and "free" games sites and click 'yes' to every certificate popup. I couldn't even finish the article. This author is ridiculous. There are tons of freeware programs to remove this spyware.
[July 29, 2004, 14:55]
Sharman Clamps Down On Kazaa Lite K++
Talkback It is still available on the Kazaa network and will always be available on warez sites. As far as I'm concerned this was a bad idea on the part of Kazaa. It just ment free advertising for K++ (a far superior product).
[December 16, 2003, 1:49]
TerminatorX Site License
Downloads Sections now include file sharing, messengers and chat, auction sites, Web mail, Internet phones, key logging and stealth programs, pornography sites, warez sites, downloads, and casino sites. On school and company networks--block MSN Messenger...
[April 3, 2006, 21:18]
CIH Virus To Strike This Sunday
News According to the Virus Bulletin, CIH can be downloaded from "warez" sites on the Internet. The virus is known to have been downloaded from at least one "warez" site in Europe. Those are the underground or "hacker" sites that store programs...
[July 23, 1998, 9:01]
File-swapping Service Shutters On DoJ Concerns
News From what I understand, these free, hard drive services have been a major hub for the distribution of pirated software for 'Web warez' sites," said David Rocci, founder of online zine Isonews. Some mischievous hackers cite them as one of their...
[January 23, 2001, 9:34]
Don't Be A Victim Of Identity Theft
News Don't use file sharing programs or visit Web sites that are more likely to contain dangerous code, such as hacker sites, porn sites or warez (pirated software) sites. Having several alternate identities can help you track down what sites are...
[May 12, 2006, 12:10]
Britney Spears Wins 2000 Search Terms Battle
News In addition to Napster and MP3 -- a standard technology and format for compressing music files from Web sites -- one of the most popular search terms on AltaVista was "Warez". Warez (pronounced "wares") is computer software stripped of copy...
[January 4, 2001, 8:54]
Control Parental 2005
Downloads Parental Control enables to deny access to pornography sites, Warez, online payment or by phones and all the shocking contents. The software displays a customizable message and can take lot of actions when a forbidden websites is detected.
[August 28, 2005, 22:46]
Microsoft Angered By Game-code Piracy
News Microsoft representatives confirmed that a pirated copy of "Halo 2" -- in the French language and the PAL video format used by European television sets -- began circulating on the Internet late on Wednesday via newsgroups and "warez" sites for...
[October 15, 2004, 12:25]
Nokia Investigates N-Gage Hacking
Talkback Far be it for me to cause anyone heartache or not do the right thing - all I could possible say is that the sites are well known Russian warez sites and some BT sites - (the sharing method not the comms company).
[November 14, 2003, 6:15]
Virus-writer Turns Tail, Covers Tracks
News Raid posted Toadie.exe to various warez sites disguised as a password cracking program. "Raid", a virus-writer who distributed the Toadie.exe virus and then taunted the authorities on a number of public newsgroups, could now be trying to cover his...
[August 26, 1999, 3:00]
Mosquito Trojan Bites Smartphones
News A spokesman for Symbian told silicon.com that users need to be aware of the risks of downloading illegal software from an unknown source, such as a number of warez Web sites. Hot on the heels of the first proof-of-concept smartphone virus, mobile...
[August 10, 2004, 17:25]
2001: The News Schmooze In Review
News Warez sites hold illegal XP key The UK supposedly got GPRS in 2001, but you'd have been hard-pressed to notice, even if you were one of those corporate types supposedly gagging for fast, always-on wireless access.
[December 31, 2001, 6:31]
Netsky Attacks: Four Sites Down, One To Go
Talkback Let's see .main DOS targets are P2P, WareZ, and other file sharing (Mp3) networks. Well it's pretty easy to discern the true authors and distributors of this virus. Now who would have an ongoing vendetta against such domains?
[April 8, 2004, 15:22]
