Every 5th Call At Dell Is Spyware-Related

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."

Comments

Re:In that case...

[LGagnon]

How about something that prevents it?

I just took that as meaning

[Anonymous Coward]

that 10% of their business now is linux. not bad huh?

Re:85% of all support calls I get are from spyware

[andy1307]

When my friends call me a geek for using Linux,

Why would anyone need to run spyware on us? Just the fact that we're running linux should be a red flag for companies selling dating services and personal hygiene products.

Re:Why was this modded "Troll"??

[cbiltcliffe]

Since when is stating an obvious fact being a troll????

Since you disagreed with some schmuck who happens to have mod points.....
I made some pretty factual comment about the USPTO a few days ago, and I got modded troll, too.

Re:Linux???

[TheAwfulTruth]

Purely... for the moment.

There is nothing in Linux other than market share protecting it from spyware.

If every windows user was a Linux user today then Linux would be beset with just as much spyware.

The question is. Will Linux use the information gained from Microsofts current problems to avoid being a future spyware target?

Or will people continue to chant "this is purely a problem with Microsoft Windows" and ignore the Linux vunerability to the very same problem till they get hit in the face with it?