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Spyware Stats To Pay Attention To.
By Mitch Johnson, Thu Dec 8th
In early 2005 Webroot Software released its State of SpywareReport which was conducted by Webroot and Earthlink. In thesurvey over 4.6 million computer systems were scanned during2004 and the results have shown how threatening hasbecome. It was suggested that more than 90 percent of all computers withinternet connections are infected with spyware. During the firstquarter of 2005 approximately 88 percent of systems scanned withWebroot's SpyAudit software had some sort of unwantedapplication detected. On corporate computers over 55 percent of PCs had unwantedprograms, excluding cookies because they are thought not to beas intrusive or detrimental. The corporate computers averaged7.2 non-cookie infections per computer.
In 2004 the last quarter yielded 19 percent of consumer andbusiness computers with keyloggers and in the first quarter of2005 that number had dropped to 7 percent,
according to systemsscanned with Webroot's software. In both the last quarter of2004 and first quarter of 2005 19 percent of consumer PCs and 7percent of business PCs had Trojans. Another daunting piece of information gather through onlineresearch by Phileas is that 4,294 sites were found to have sometype of spyware. This information has proven that in a shortamount of time has skyrocketed into the top internetthreat. As the internet become a rapidly growing medium used bymillions online threats such as can thrive and spread aquick rate, infecting and damaging nearly all user unlessprotective measures are taken. About the author:Mitch Johnson is a successful freelance author that writesregularly for http://www.1st-in-spyware.com/ , a site thatfocuses exclusively on removal software, as well as tipson how to prevent from popping up on your computer. Thissite articles on has guard,http://www.easy-spyware-killer.info/ as well as scanner,http://www.easy-remove-spyware.info/
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