Malware includes viruses, worms, adware, spyware, and ransomware — they all work differently but tend to cause similar ...

Adware is software that serves advertisements to you, either within your web browser or in other programs.

Buggy anti-virus definition update had mislabeled Skype as pop-up adware program, but Microsoft fixed the issue in a signature update, available for download Skype ...

If you thought that Microsoft’s bad history of pushing its own products onto Windows users with bad attempts at advertising was a thing of the past, then I’ve got news for you. Multiple users around ...

Just days after posting details of searches made by hundreds of thousands of subscribers, AOL is in hot water again with consumer advocates. This time the issue is with the company’s Active Virus ...

A popular urban legend debunking site has stopped serving up adware downloads after the practice was criticized by security experts and users, according to one researcher. Snopes.com, a site that ...

Skype users who have been getting strange error messages from Microsoft’s security products over the past week can breathe easy now. It was all a mistake. Microsoft ...