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Report: Incidence Of Spyware Still Rising

From the press release:

This week EarthLink and Webroot Software released their third SpyAudit Report, which has tracked the growth of spyware on consumer PCs for the first half of 2004.

Since the SpyAudit report’s inception on January 1, 2004, more than two million scans have been performed. The scans discovered approximately 54.8 million instances of spyware, for an average of 26.5 traces per SpyAudit scan. Scans nearly doubled from the first to the second quarter. For each category, the instances of adware increased month-over-month, while adware cookies, system monitors and Trojans decreased slightly overall. The complete report is available at http://www.earthlink.net/spyaudit/press.

Earthlink and Webroot Release Spyware Audit

From Webroot’s press release:

Webroot Software and EarthLink have released their second SpyAudit Report, which tracks the growth of spyware on consumer PCs.

Among the key findings, the report revealed that, for the year to date, more than 500,000 system monitors and Trojan horses have been discovered from the roughly 1.5 million SpyAudit scans completed. Overall, approximately 41 million traces, at an average of 27.5 per machine, have been found. The complete report is available at http://www.earthlink.net/spyaudit/press.

Earthlink And Webroot Track Spyware Growth

From Earthlink’s press release:

The results from the SpyAudit report are culled from EarthLink’s and Webroot’s SpyAudit detection programs that run analyses of Internet users PCs and provide audited reports of spyware residing on the machines. Spyware is a rapidly proliferating type of software that secretly forwards information about a computer user’s online activities to another individual or company without the user’s knowledge or permission.

The first report is now available at http://www.earthlink.net/spyaudit/press.

“When Internet users have questions about spyware, we want them to turn to the SpyAudit report as a reliable source of current information about this growing threat to Internet privacy,” said Matt Cobb, EarthLink’s vice president of core applications.  Read more...

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