SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Stepping up its fight against computer threats at the risk of alienating security businesses, Microsoft Corp. announced Tuesday it will give away a program to combat ...

WASHINGTON -- Microsoft Corp., whose popular Windows software is a frequent target for Internet viruses, is offering a free security program to remove the most dangerous infections from computers. The ...

Like viruses and other harmful programs, spyware is a huge security problem. Worse than a typical virus, a spyware program can send corporate data directly from your company’s client computers to an ...

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Malicious software can easily find its way onto your computer and stay there undetected. However, with the right tools, you can scan your system and remove spyware, adware, and other malicious ...

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Microsoft's new anti-spyware solution will be free, it has been revealed. The software giant plans to give the software away for home users, and to provide a paid version of the product for business ...

Spyware rarely announces itself with pop-ups or flashing warnings. It slips into everyday routines, quietly tracking what you type, where you click, and which accounts you open, often for months ...

Spyware is at best a nuisance that can inundate users with popups, rendering them extremely unproductive, and at its worst can even engineer the theft of personal data like names, addresses and credit ...