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Every 5th Call At Dell Is Spyware-Related

Posted by timothy on from the yes-ma'am-that's-a-feature dept.

prostoalex writes "Financial Express quotes a Dell executive saying that spyware is installed on roughly 90% computers out there. Right now 20% of all Dell phone support calls are spyware-related. University of Washington research this March published a moderate estimate of 5.1% PCs running spyware."

2 of 559 comments (clear)

  1. Okay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think it's probably somewhere in between 5% and 90%...

  2. Wow by Aroma+7herapy · · Score: 5, Funny
    A "nation wide poll" "consisting of 724 internet users"...

    They really went the distance to get the results they wanted...