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Spyware Removal is Big Business
prostoalex writes "Just when you thought all the software niches were taken, IDC comes out with the report saying $12 million was spent on spyware removal tools in 2003, and $305 million will be spent in 2008. IDC also estimates two-thirds of PC users out there are infected. Large PC vendors are waking up to the spyware threat, having their call centers overwhelmed with spyware-related calls."
It's the best way of getting free beer I've found: fixing spyware related problems for family and friends. While I watch SpyBot and AdAware do their job, I get free beer. There are worse activities ;-)
Ahhh...the great dumpster continuum. Many a free computer will be found there. -- sowth (748135)
wooo wooo the bandwagon is going past *jump*. Phew it almost went without me
99 bottles of beer in 175 characte
Just think how un-American Apple computer is. Do Macs contribute to the growing anti-spyware business? Hardly at all! Why almost no money is being made removing spyware from Macs. Why hardly anyone has heard of spyware for Macs in the first place. Can you imagine taking bread from the mouths of the little children of anti-spyware software developers? Won't someone please think of the children?
More free beer! Wow! I think I've detected the secret underlying thread in /. !!
Seriously though, my uncle's family from Greenville, SC (read Bob Jones University - no, don't mean to offend anyone's religious beliefs here but I have a beer point to make ;-) have asked me for computer help on occassions but for obvious reasons, that never got ME any free beer.
I'm going off to cry in my beer now...
Mmmm, salty!
And, this is news? It's sort of like announcing "Hey, the Moon causes the Ocean Tides to Rise and Fall"
Y'know what sucks? Having to tell your father to be more careful about visiting porn sites.
Good point! It reminds me of Doctor Evil -- "One MILLLLLIIIIOOOOOONNNNNN Dollars!"
Rather tell my father that than my mother...
(or your mother! HEEHEE!)
I'm thinking about exploring the Spyware Writer Removal Service niche instead...
My daughter and I will be doing spyware removal as a summer job in an affluent suburb of Chicago. (I teach HS chemistry.)
;)
IPO will be next fall.
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You know what they say about consulting work.
You're forgetting that half of all people are below average....
Not as bad as the Boss.
"Someone was using this computer for no good, I highly recomend not using any browser but Firefox for no good."
Wow, sent an e-mail as suggested when clicking on "use classic" banner, and got a fast response that addressed my msg
We did at the office and have seen a serious decline in Spyware related calls. We used to get 10 or more a day for Windows 2000.
I don't have that problem, my father and I share a porn collection :)
I'm trying to improve my English. Please correct me on any spelling/grammar errors in this post.
> In Australia you have cars? I thought you rode kangaroos everywhere.
Car. Kar. Karg. Karga. Kargao. Kargaroo. Kangaroo!
Maybe I'll give up and join the Borg.
Never shake hands with a man you meet in a fertility clinic.
I'm not sure what's creepier, the fact that you share a porn collection, or that someone found your post +1 informative.
"Upon attaching the waterblock to my penis, I began to notice that I know nothing about computers." -- JRockway
You know, if cars made stupid, unfounded comments like this...oh.
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