This is an undesirable program. This file has been identified as a program that is undesirable to have running on your computer. This consists of programs that are misleading, harmful, or undesirable.

Microsoft Corp. has posted a second beta version of Windows Defender, its free spyware-removal tool. The program is in a name-change transition: Windows Defender initially was called Windows ...

There's no standard definition of spyware, so what one company considers a malicious intrusion upon your system might go unnoticed by another vendor's app. That means you'll need more than one ...

Spyware and stalkerware have been ever-present threats of the digital world for about as long as the modern internet has existed. As their names imply, their primary purpose is to spy on their victims ...

Tons of readers have written to complain that our column recommending the free spyware removal tool Spybot — Search and Destroy misled them. It’s not free, they said. But it really is free. What ...

Computer viruses, trojans and worms are not new phenomena. These pesky parasites have been inflicting electronic pain on computers since Arpanet first went online in 1969. Since then, computers used ...