Spyware Comes from Blogs

Monday, March 21st, 2005 at 6:15 AM | Category: Meryl's Notes Blog No comments

Sadly, spyware distributors have found another way to infilitrate computers through what people perceive as a safe environment—blogs. You won’t get any from this one. It comes through bloggers downloading free music and media for visitors to their blogs to download. Another way spyware makes its appearance is through pop ups. Dodge these pop ups and avoid clicking on them. Continue to run your anti-spyware program on a regular basis. Verify your browser’s security settings are where they should be.

How do these distributors prey on bloggers? Like the article says, not all of them tech savvy. My daughter interacts with a popular kid Web site where they add backgrounds, music, and images to their profile and “store” pages. She doesn’t understand the concept of spyware just yet, so she would be an easy victim. We check her computer to ensure it stays clean, but many are like her and may not have parents who know how to help. [Source: Investor's Business Daily]

More resources on the topic:

* eWeek

* Tech Republic

I’ve been getting hit with ping spam for the past week or so. I’m deleting every one of them with Blacklist. The eWeek article discusses comment spam (scroll down). In this month’s issue of Shavlik’s The Remediator Security Journal, readers tackle spyware and Mary Landesman writes about “Sly Wares.”

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