One of the easiest yet least known ways to drastically improve any PC’s ability to defend itself against malware such as adware or spyware is to simply redirect malicious websites using the hosts file ...

Adobe Creative Cloud secretly modifies users' hosts files without permission, adding detection entries that trigger security alerts even for paying subscribers.

WikiLeaks is reportedly hosting over 300 malware samples among the website's cache of leaked emails. As reported by The Register, Bulgarian security researcher Dr Vesselin Bontchev claims that the ...

HOSTS file hijacking combined with bank password stealing trojans is one of the more egregious spyware tricks currently being seen. Here's the scenario. A user is infected with a trojan and other ...