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Spyware's Growing Arsenal
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Posted by Donster on: 2006-08-21 15:28:52 590
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Purveyors of malware are increasingly harnessing the popularity of social networks and Web video to infect PCs
By Arik Hesseldahl, BusinessWeek
Spyware's threat is getting nastier. Infection rates are on the rise, in part thanks to the surging popularity of social-networking sites like MySpace.com.
That's the assessment of Webroot, a leading vendor of anti-spyware software, which released the latest quarterly update of its State of Spyware report. In order to keep its software up-to-date against the latest threats, the Colorado-based company constantly tracks the creation of new spyware—the programs that become embedded in computers and track users' Web-surfing habits and generate annoying pop-up ads.
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