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One-Third of PCs Have Spyware

Posted by TimSlavin at June 18, 2004

"They scanned more than 420,000 PCs and found nearly 134,000 had the software, known as spyware, on them. The company believes each computer has an average of 30 pieces of spyware on it.

Experts from consultancy firm Gartner warned that almost two million net users have already been the victims of bank fraud because of the hidden software. The spyware can also display annoying pop-up adverts to users."

Lots of scary data from the UK Evening Standard.

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