Neowin News Feed for: Click

New Bitcoin mining malware spreading on Skype at 2,000 clicks per hour

Max Slater-Robins — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 13:17:06 +0000

A new piece of malware has been found which spreads through an innocent looking link on Skype. The malware is spreading at around 2,000 clicks per hour and uses the host computer to mine for Bitcoins. Read more...

Google earning 10 million a day from click-through ads

Sam Symons — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:51:35 +0000

According to the lads at Tech Radar, Google's just today announced some rather admirable increases in profits; they've managed to pull in Â£900m in the second quarter of this year alone. Apparently, total revenues for... Read more...

Hey, HP laptop owners: click here to get hijacked

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:23:50 +0000

If you use a Hewlett-Packard laptop, chances are a hacker can hijack your machine simply by luring you to a malicious website. The pwnage comes courtesy of "HP Info Center", which comes installed on most... Read more...

Click to Connect!

Steven Parker — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 09:37:29 +0000

Create a handy button so your friends can easily add you to their contact list. Buttons make it easy! Use the button builder below to create a button that fits your personal style or even... Read more...

Hundreds Click on 'Click Here to Get Infected' Ad

Sat, 19 May 2007 20:24:28 +0000

Over the course of 6 months, 409 people clicked on an ad that offered infection for those with virus-free PCs. Didier Stevens, who ran the ad via Google Adwords, works for Contraste Europe, a branch... Read more...

Yahoo appoints click fraud tsar

Steven Parker — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:19:29 +0000

Yahoo has promoted one of its staff attorneys to an executive-level position that is akin to being click fraud tsar at the second largest web search provider. For seven years, Reggie Davis helped the web... Read more...

Google steps up click fraud war

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:30:10 +0000

Google is to introduce a new service to its AdWords advertisement management service in April that allows clients to block certain users from seeing their ads. The move will allow advertisers to further combat click... Read more...

Click 4 The Cause

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:12:57 +0000

Microsoft is trying yet another approach to see some positive growth for its search engine. This time, Microsoft is targeting all philanthropists who search the Internet. When you input click4thecause.live.com in to your web browser,... Read more...

Vista's User Account Protection: one click and it's gone

Sat, 09 Sep 2006 09:06:18 +0000

Vista's biggest security enhancement is "User Account Protection" (or "User Account Control" ) which pops up and asks for user authentication before software can make any administrative changes to the system. But the TweakVista utility... Read more...

Wanna beta test Neverwinter Nights 2 MP? Click here!

Todd Tanner — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 20:08:05 +0000

Well, not literally. But Atari and Obsidian Entertainment are offering gamers everywhere the opportunity to possibly test the upcoming multiplayer portion of Neverwinter Nights 2. I'm pretty sure most gamers here on Neowin would give... Read more...

Google Sued Over Click Fraud, Again

Fri, 12 May 2006 21:17:16 +0000

Not for lead plaintiff Joseph Kinney and the other Internet advertisers who this week had their lawyers sue to block the $90 million settlement Google reached in a click fraud case in March. The suit... Read more...

Man charged over click fraud scheme

Steven Parker — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 10:51:54 +0000

A US man has been charged with conspiracy, mail fraud and wire fraudover a 'click fraud' scheme allegedly carried out against an internetfirm that rewards subscribers who complete online surveys and viewbanner ads. ... Read more...

Open-Source Exploit Tool: 'Point, Click, Root'

Thu, 29 Jul 2004 17:20:26 +0000

At the Black Hat security conference HD Moore unveiled the release of his Metasploit Framework. This exploit tools is designed to quickly take over a variety of target platforms. Hey it's even available... Read more...

Click and Convert 2003 - An audio converter and CD ripper.

Fri, 13 Jun 2003 10:41:48 +0000

With just 2 mouse clicks, you can encode, decode and convert freely between popular audio formats(e.g. WMA to MP3, MP3 to WAV etc.), rip CD sound tracks, edit ID3 tags and more. ... Read more...

Microsoft confirms XP right click memory hog problem

Steven Parker — Fri, 09 May 2003 10:40:01 +0000

Yep, thats right. 3 weeks after we posted the original reposted finding on BugTraq and a day before The Inquirer stumbled across it. It's only fair to say that The Inquirer has beaten us to... Read more...

You click, you pay?

Sat, 27 Apr 2002 15:29:58 +0000

Microsoft's BCentral site has an interesting article for website operators dicussing how the online public will *supposedly* pay for cyber services. It'd be worth hearing what you guys think about this. Are you ready to... Read more...

Click the Ad to see the story!

Thu, 27 Sep 2001 01:10:32 +0000

Thought this was an interesting twist to the ever growing Ad movement on the net, with Salon this week starting to experimenting with the latest advertising format, presenting an ad before Web surfers could... Read more...

Mummy, can I click on this readme.exe attachment?

Wed, 05 Sep 2001 16:51:43 +0000

Europe has been hit by a new, even more destructive variant of the Magistr virus, but so far the United States has baffled experts by remaining immune. The Magistr.B virus arrives as an... Read more...