We learned this week that more than 317 million computer viruses or other malicious programs were unleashed by hackers last year, according to the Internet security firm Symantec. That's nearly a ...

The Ask Partner Network (APN) was compromised for the second time in two months, as crooks found a way to deliver malware to computers running the Ask.com Toolbar. The first attack took place at the ...

Microsoft took what appeared to be a shot at Oracle’s wallet this month when it switched on search-and-destroy in its security software for older versions of the Ask browser toolbar, which has long ...

For years people have been opening their browser and asking, “how the heck did that Ask Toolbar get installed?” Chances are that if you don’t have the Ask.com search toolbar haunting your PC, you may ...

Security firm Red Canary claims to have stopped a malware campaign that experimented with using the Ask.com toolbar as a method of delivering malware to end users. In an incident report published ...

Microsoft has reclassified the Ask Toolbar as unwanted software, which means its security tools will automatically detect and remove all versions, except for the most recent, from Windows computers.

Attackers who were trying to turn the Ask.com Toolbar into a malware dispensary got caught early on when their scheme was picked up by security services that were looking for anomalies. The malicious ...