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Symantec Australia/New Zealand Submission to DCITA Spyware Discussion Paper
Overview Adware/Spyware related security risks comprise nearly 20% of submissions made to Symantec Security Response research labs. Nine of the top ten reported spyware programs were bundled with other software. A recent AOL/National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) Online Safety Study in the USA found that 80 percent of scanned computers actually had some form of spyware or adware present and Earthlink reports that a scan of 3 million computers systems over nine months found 83 million instances of spyware. Spyware/adware also needs to be seen in the larger context of overall cyber-security crime (including phishing, spam, virus, etc) and security threats, as these are increasingly inter-related. For example, spyware can be delivered through spam.
| Publisher | Commonwealth of Australia | File Format | |
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| Date Published | June 2005 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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