http://www.spyzooka.com/blog SpyZooka’s antispyware blog with the latest news, tips and advice about spyware and protecting yourself online. Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:45:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Advision is another in a long line of spyware and adware applications that are in truth no vision you want to see at all! Moreover, you'll want to get these vermin off your machine as fast as you possibly can, before they do any more harm than they may have ... http://www.spyzooka.com/blog/advision-not-exactly-what-you-wanted-to-see/ Adtool.Win32.VB.a is an adware application that generally comes bundled with other freeware or shareware, and could have easily been installed without your even knowing it, much less giving your permission! It brings you ads based on its observance of your web surfing preferences. It can also get around your computers ... http://www.spyzooka.com/blog/adtoolwin32vba-a-complicated-name-for-an-adware-application/ ABSPics is an adware application that opens each time you start up your browser, specifically Internet Explorer, and then goes about delivering up unsolicited advertisements around the clock, while it stays hidden quietly in the background. ABSPics usually arrives via a driveby install, coming bundled with other freeware or shareware, ... http://www.spyzooka.com/blog/abspics-something-to-get-rid-of/ AdPlay is an adware program that affixes itself to Internet Explorer and uses its host to promote its own advertisements, which are typically popups that are entirely unwanted but are based on your browsing habits, which it has been observing ever since it arrived to be able to serve ads ... http://www.spyzooka.com/blog/adplay-no-fun-to-play-with/ Admass is a very pesky spyware that opens many doors to other applications that are just as nasty to come and take up residence in your computer. It is a very serious security risk, and it should be removed from your machine as soon as you determine that it's present. It ... http://www.spyzooka.com/blog/admass-a-mass-of-problems-that-is/ Adhelper is one more of the adware applications on the internet whose goal is to get you to click on their ads, which are brought to you by a continual stream of popups and poppunders that appear continuously on your machine after it takes up residence there. Adhelper installs itself ... http://www.spyzooka.com/blog/adhelper-not-really-any-help-at-all/ Funny they should have named it thus, for Batty is definitely an adware application designed to drive you batty! Batty is designed to deliver up ads that will constantly show on your computer, entirely unsolicited and unwanted. You don't even have to invite it. Batty will usually find its own ... http://www.spyzooka.com/blog/batty-adware-that-will-drive-you-there/ Barbekin.A is an adware application that you most likely unknowingly have allowed onto your computer, and to make matters worse, it's a beast that has no intentions of leaving without you forcing it to! Barbekin.A  is a pest that once safely ensconced on your computer, opens for business and delivers an ... http://www.spyzooka.com/blog/barbekina-not-one-to-be-messed-with/ Aurora is an adware program that creates and shows ads in the form of popup advertisements and toolbars that are seemingly there for your convenience, but offer little of anything useful, just a steady stream of unsolicited ads that fast become quite annoying, as well as extremely harmful to your ... http://www.spyzooka.com/blog/aurora-not-a-pretty-sight-2/ If you find you've got an infection of an adware named AdPlay, you should make sure that you deal with it as fast as humanly possible. AdPlay is an adware application that gives access to your computer to other, much more dangerous agents, which will steal and distribute your information ... http://www.spyzooka.com/blog/adplay-you-dont-want-to-play-with-this-one/