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Spyware on One in Twenty Computers?

Posted by michael on Friday March 5, 2004 @10:17AM from the PEBKAC dept.

SpaceDonkey writes "New Scientist reports that researchers at the University of Washington carried out a scan of the campus network for signs of spyware. They found spyware lurking on more than one in 20 machines and also discovered a serious vulnerability in two of the four spyware programs they looked for."

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Re:Spyware flaw by gid13 · 2004-03-05 10:21 · Score: 5, Insightful

Funny, but makes you wonder how much was there that they didn't detect. And as much as I love Spybot S&D and to a lesser extent Ad-Aware, I wonder how much they miss.