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1 edit |  Two thirds of global PC's infected with Spyware.
Two thirds of all PCs infected with spyware
Epidemic costing millions as malicious software runs riot
Robert Jaques
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Dec 01 2004
The global spyware plague has reached epidemic proportions, with the cost to global PC users set to rocket by 2,400 per cent over the next four years.
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dave
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According to newly published research from IDC, the need to identify and eradicate these parasitic programs will drive anti-spyware software revenues from $12m in 2003 to $305m in 2008.
In other words, no need to worry about actually fixing anything: there's money to be made papering over the cracks. |
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Name Game
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| Maybe Microsoft will get in the "antimalware" business  $305m ain't chicken feed. |
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SnowyOne
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| said by Name Game  :Maybe Microsoft will get in the "antimalware" business $305m ain't chicken feed. 305m just doesn't have as much influence as it used to. 
For example, Symantec earns (for lack of a better word) $305m in gross sales about every 80 calendar days.
It will be interesting to see how the players, current & future reshape the"AntiMalware" market. The predicted increase in spending on AntiMalware software doesn't necessarily mean that detections & removals are going to be any better than they are today, just that more $ will be spent on the problem.
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Fobulous
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Re: Two thirds of global PC's infected with Spyw
Considering M$'s marketshare..that's amazing |
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"The report found that spyware is often bundled with legitimate programs, allowing it to pass easily through firewalls. IDC estimated that 67 per cent of all computers (mostly consumer) contain some form of spyware."
Wow, if you take that an add the 67 percent of computer users who don't use a firewall, that means that the majority of pc's are warlock runned. |
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Name Game
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Re: Two thirds of global PC's infected with Spyware.
said by SnowyOne : said by Name Game :Maybe Microsoft will get in the "antimalware" business $305m ain't chicken feed. 305m just doesn't have as much influence as it used to. For example, Symantec earns (for lack of a better word) $305m in gross sales about every 80 calendar days. It will be interesting to see how the players, current & future reshape the"AntiMalware" market. The predicted increase in spending on AntiMalware software doesn't necessarily mean that detections & removals are going to be any better than they are today, just that more $ will be spent on the problem. My crystal ball and shares in Microsoft tells me they will be a player.;)
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SnowyOne
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| said by Name Game : My crystal ball and shares in Microsoft tells me they will be a player.;)
My Grandmother had a fake eye, but it was made out of glass not crystal.  I wouldn't doubt for a second that Microsoft will become a player in a big way. --
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Link Logger
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First yet again another report of how much spyware there is out there, but are we still including cookies? What is the leading spyware program, what is the break down of how they were installed. I want details so I know what and where to fight. As for $305M, chicken feed (how I'd love to be a chicken eh?), for example Half-Life 2 expects to make $700M from sales of the game alone. Want to be rich, write a kick butt game, want to spend the rest of your life sleep deprived and chasing shadows, write security software.
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| I don't know about the 2/3 figure, but if most PCs *don't* have any kind of firewall and most *don't* have OS autoupdate turned on, and most *don't* have any, or current AV software...and 95% of them are running some flavor of windows, then it's highly likely that they have more than just tracking cookies.
Most of the PCs I see at friends/family are hosed to one extent or another. If you take a PC with a freshly-installed Win2K or WinXP and connect it to a broadband connection with no firewall enabled, it *will* be hosed within a matter of minutes. Hell, take a clean PC with WinXP SP2 and let some teenagers use it for a week for typical stuff-- AIM, P2P, email -- and it will be almost unusuable.
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Name Game
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said by SnowyOne : said by Name Game : My crystal ball and shares in Microsoft tells me they will be a player.;)
My Grandmother had a fake eye, but it was made out of glass not crystal. I wouldn't doubt for a second that Microsoft will become a player in a big way. I bet she alway got it right..even when she winked at you.  --
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