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Worst Spyware Down, Infected Sites Up

Gregg Keizer writes over on TechWeb that:

Although the worst kind of spyware declined during the first quarter, anti-spyware vendor Webroot monitored a dramatic increase in the number of Web sites that host spyware, ready to infect the unwary visitor, the Boulder, Colo.-based company said Monday.

Webroot, which released the results of its for-free spyware auditing tool during 2004 on an ad hoc basis, formalized its data collection in the first official quarterly report to provide a benchmark going forward, said Richard Stiennon, the director of Webroot's threat research team.

posted by Fergie @ 5/02/2005 12:26:00 PM