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Got back from DC earlier today. Spyware is really becoming a huge problem for everyone, ALREADY costing businesses billions of dollars.
some of the stories I heard there from the panel experts are..
1. One expert had to format his hard-drive and reinstall everything because a spyware program took over his machine. Took him five days to reinstall all his apps again.
A mother of one of the panel members' used a "reverse" option to remove spyware
12% of Dell's customer support is spyware related, each call is long. It costs dell allot of money and is hurting their brand as users blame them anyways and fee las Dell computers are the source of the problems.
Some broadband users are going back to dial ups because they feel they have less risk with dial ups.
90% of computers online are infected
The government and the industry do not agree on what is spyware. Some adware companies want to call themselves differently although they are involved in spyware activities.
MS has a plan to help fight spyware in the new service pack they will release. From what I saw, this won't change a thing.
Mcafee, Norton, get more complaints about spyware then viruses.
Spyware makers are adding up to 4k new data entries to their signature files every month.
Our site spyware.com and our new app are coming soon. We are learning allot about the user's needs to make something unique to fight spyware.
Got back from DC earlier today. Spyware is really becoming a huge problem for everyone, ALREADY costing businesses billions of dollars.
some of the stories I heard there from the panel experts are..
1. One expert had to format his hard-drive and reinstall everything because a spyware program took over his machine. Took him five days to reinstall all his apps again.
A mother of one of the panel members' used a "reverse" option to remove spyware
12% of Dell's customer support is spyware related, each call is long. It costs dell allot of money and is hurting their brand as users blame them anyways and fee las Dell computers are the source of the problems.
Some broadband users are going back to dial ups because they feel they have less risk with dial ups.
90% of computers online are infected
The government and the industry do not agree on what is spyware. Some adware companies want to call themselves differently although they are involved in spyware activities.
MS has a plan to help fight spyware in the new service pack they will release. From what I saw, this won't change a thing.
Mcafee, Norton, get more complaints about spyware then viruses.
Spyware makers are adding up to 4k new data entries to their signature files every month.
Our site spyware.com and our new app are coming soon. We are learning allot about the user's needs to make something unique to fight spyware.
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