That article in Consumer Reports Magazine that I was quoting mentioned that there are some big companies behind some of the latest Spyware being brought out these days:
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Much spyware operates under the cloak of legitimate business, complete with corporate headquarters, legal departments, publicists, Washington lobbyists, and millions in revenues to fund the assault on your computer. "Spyware is written by the very best teams of hackers and virus writers," says Rick Carlson, president of Aluria Software, which publishes Spyware Eliminator software.
Big name companies spend big money for space in those pop-up windows: Circuit City, Dell Computer, JPMorgan Chase, McAfee, and Vonage are a few of the many companies whose ads have popped up via adware this year. "Lots of big companies get involved in this mess." says Ben Edelman, a spyware researcher who has served as an expert witness in lawsuits against spyware companies.
More threats, such as those combining virus technology with spyware, are appearing. "About 18 months ago, you could keep a new PC online for 45-55 minutes before it was attacked by something." says Kraig Lane, group product manager at Symantec. "Now it takes just 4 to 5 minutes."
Perhaps we should boycott companies that support spyware manufacturers?
I said in my previous post that Spyware Blaster only updates about once a month. Well I've had two updates so far this month, and it's only August 4th. Spybot Search and Destroy, which usually only updates about once a month, has had 3 updates in the last 2 weeks. Ad-aware has also been very busy updating.
It looks like we're under a heavy new onslaught. Check for updates every day, folks.
