Cloak and dagger inside the computer By GRANT BUCKLER, Globe and Mail Update (Jan 22) - Some Internet Service Providers are offering programs to detect and remove adware and spyware from clients' machines.
"While spam and viruses raised public concerns during the past year, 2004 will be "the year of the invisible threat," said Alex Leslie, vice-president of technology at AOL Canada in Toronto. "Spyware is a very large problem."
Sarai Zizniewski, senior product manager for core software at Earthlink, estimates 90 per cent of computer users have some type of spyware running on their machines."
Posted by Gwen at January 22, 2004 01:35 PM