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June 9, 2004 Criminal charges could result for those who use Explorer vulnerabilities to trigger pop-up ads on PCs. TAGS: adware, victim, Stephen Toulouse, flaw, antivirus company, toolbar, Microsoft Internet Explorer, vulnerability, trojan horse, researcher, antivirus, security, Symantec Corp., analysis, Microsoft Corp., e-mail

December 21, 2004 CoolWebSearch is most dangerous item on a top 10 list of the worst spyware and adware programs. TAGS: Webroot Software Inc., spyware, adware, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web browser, security, Microsoft Corp.

June 8, 2005 Lawsuit seeks right to detect Hotbar's toolbar programs as adware--a new move in the tug of war between security providers and marketers. TAGS: Sunbelt Software, Symantec Corp., adware, lawsuit, security software company, spyware, anti-spyware, toolbar, software company, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Outlook, California, security, Web browser, Microsoft Corp., e-mail

January 14, 2005 Trojan horses are piggybacking on an antipiracy feature in Media Player, a security firm claims. But Microsoft denies it's a flaw. TAGS: Overpeer, Panda Software, Ben Edelman, Microsoft Windows Media Player, rights-management, spyware, digital-rights management, media player, antipiracy, Windows Media, flaw, adware, P2P, trojan horse, security, researcher

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