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State of Spyware Report (Q1 2005)

Overview This in-depth report details the scope of the spyware problem as identified by Webroot Software’s recent Corporate SpyAudit and Consumer SpyAudit scans, performed on over 35,300 business PCs and over a million home PCs, respectively. The sheer number of PCs found to be infected with various forms of spyware during the first quarter of 2005 is staggering—a whopping 87 percent in corporate environments and 88 percent in home settings. Download this information-packed report for a comprehensive analysis of the impact of spyware on business and consumer PCs and the destructive methodologies being employed by spyware writers to separate Internet users from their valuable corporate and personal data.

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Publisher	Webroot Software	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	May 2005	Downloads	27
Format	White Papers
Topics	Anti-Hacking, Web Browsers, Privacy Issues, Spyware

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