From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Feb 24 2003 - 15:45:21 MST
Well, at least I'm not alone in this war.
The adware doesn't bother me so much. I've known about these annoying
nuisances for some time.
It's that damned spyware that keeps me awake at night.
-gts
> 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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