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Spyware: a view from the (online) street

Spyware: a view from the (online) street There are indications of late that the use of anti-spyware software is on the rise, with more than 100 million Internet users downloading Lavasoft's free anti-spyware software 2. Some big-name companies are also beginning to address the spyware issue, including Microsoft, which currently has a beta version of its own anti-spyware available to Microsoft Windows users for download. However, a Gartner survey finds only 10% of respondents were taking sufficiently aggressive steps to minimize spyware infestations 5 and a Forrester survey found that even though 55% of consumers knew what spyware was, only 40% were running anti-spyware programs routinely 7. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Communications of the ACM Association for Computing Machinery

Spyware: a view from the (online) street

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Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Copyright
Copyright © 2005 by ACM Inc.
ISSN
0001-0782
DOI
10.1145/1076211.1076247
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Abstract

There are indications of late that the use of anti-spyware software is on the rise, with more than 100 million Internet users downloading Lavasoft's free anti-spyware software 2. Some big-name companies are also beginning to address the spyware issue, including Microsoft, which currently has a beta version of its own anti-spyware available to Microsoft Windows users for download. However, a Gartner survey finds only 10% of respondents were taking sufficiently aggressive steps to minimize spyware infestations 5 and a Forrester survey found that even though 55% of consumers knew what spyware was, only 40% were running anti-spyware programs routinely 7.

Journal

Communications of the ACMAssociation for Computing Machinery

Published: Aug 1, 2005

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