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An independent research and data gathered by a Spy Audit service, which uses software designed to look up for spyware , showed that 88 % of the consumer machines in the study harbored some form of unwanted program during the first quarter.
Among businesses, the independent study found similar overwhelming results, with spyware on 87 % of all the corporate PCs that have been studied.
Spyware is a general term used to describe software programs that are secretly deposited on computers to track Internet usage, launch advertising programs or steal users' personal information. Adware, keystroke loggers and so-called system monitors are the most popular spywares among these programs.
Remaining a major threat to personal and business security, Spyware applications--specifically the types that generate pop-up advertisements, hijack home pages, redirect Web searches and use so-called DNS poisoning to steal Web traffic--also generate an estimated $2 billion in revenue annually. Based on statistics published by the Internet Advertising Bureau, spyware could represent almost 25 percent of the entire online advertising industry.
The growing number of spyware attacks crafted expressly for making money, rather than for tracking Web use for marketing research or other purposes, is another emerging problem. The report contends that spyware exploits have "crippled" some businesses, particularly financial-services companies, in some cases by stealing customers' data. Spyware infection also has slowed the growth of e-commerce by eroding consumer trust in online security.
"We can hope that the advertising industry will provide some help in trying to root out the truly malicious forms of spyware, but as long as there is an attractive return on investment on this activity for some people, this isn't going to stop anytime soon," Moll, a security expert said.
Adware continues to be the most pervasive form of spyware, with more than 50 percent of all business computers, and almost 60 percent of consumer machines, running some form of the programs. Of the devices already infected with the advertising applications, each machine averaged nearly seven different forms of the programs, according to the research.
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