Tag archive: Matt Cobb

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More