(DIGITAL TRENDS) - Sitting through 30 seconds of grating ads to watch a clip of a possum snowboarding is bad enough, but now there's another YouTube ad annoyance to contend with: Sambreel, a notorious ...

Call it spyware, or adware, or just plain annoying — but it’s everywhere. Programs designed to deliver pop-up advertising have multiplied like viruses in recent months and consumers should get used to ...

New versions of a highly persistent adware program called Shopperz use a cunning technique to make DNS (Domain Name System) hijacking harder to detect and fix. Shopperz, also known as Groover, injects ...

Adware and ad fraud are in basically the same business, and neither care very much how they make money as long as it keeps pouring in. But there are some major differences. To understand these ...

More than one million users of MySpace.com and other Web sites may have been infected with adware spread by a banner advertisement, according to iDefense, a computer security group. The advertisement, ...