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