This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American In a cheery, sunshine-filled fourth-grade ...

WebSearcher is an adware program that injects advertisements into search engines and web sites that you are browsing. When using a search engine, WebSearcher will display advertisements at the top and ...

Microsoft, the giant software maker, has a split personality. In product categories where it has already crushed the competition, like Web browsers and word processors, it acts like a classic monopoly ...