Spyware arms race accelerates

From: BillK (bill@wkidston.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Mon Feb 24 2003 - 15:11:43 MST

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    Good news article from CNet:
    http://news.com.com/2009-1023-985524.html?tag=fd_lede1_hed

    Spike in "spyware" accelerates arms race

    By John Borland
    Staff Writer, CNET News.com
    February 24, 2003, 4:00AM PT

    EarthLink's technical support staff handles a variety of problems:
    broken networks, corrupted files, coffee spills--and, increasingly over
    the past few months, bitter complaints from subscribers about "spyware"
    and "adware."

    Those persistent types of programs, frequently operating on computers
    without owners' knowledge, have spread quickly in the last year,
    evolving as rapidly as anti-spyware software has been able to find them.
    EarthLink executives estimate that 40 percent to 50 percent of the
    Internet service provider's subscribers have running on their machines
    some kind of advertising or more-malicious program, which often monitors
    their behavior and sends the data back to the software's parent company.

    See link above for the rest of a good spyware review.

    BillK

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