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Spyware Infiltrates the Enterprise

Overview Desktops littered with pop-up ads, computers grinding to a halt under the weight of snoopy software, private data snatched off networks and sent to a server somewhere in Siberia or San Francisco. All these unfortunate occurrences can be attributed to spyware, a generic term for software that regularly collects demographic and usage information from a computer and transmits it to a marketing company or other interested parties without the user's explicit permission.

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Publisher	IDG (International Data Group)	File Format	HTML
Date Published	October 2004	Downloads	33
Format	White Papers
Topics	Security Management, Anti-Hacking, Spyware

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