BBC News: "Spyware is a broad term for software that hides on a PC, collecting data about you and what you do online." CNN.com: "Spyware gets onto people's computers without their knowledge." ZDnet: "Computers across the country are being hijacked every day." NCSA: "Millions of Americans are at risk - and are already infected - by spyware, viruses and adware." CNET News.com: "Adware watch the user's web surfing and advertise accordingly." TheRegister: "Spyware is difficult for traditional antivirus software to identify and clean up." MacNewsWorld: "Spyware is evolving into a monster that might soon become more vicious than e-mail spam and virus attacks combined." TheRegister: "73,000 Trojan horse 61,000 system monitoring programs and 2.3 million adware programs in a scan of only 420,000 PCs..." WebOptimiser: "88% of users are not even aware their PCs are infected." VNUNet: "Spyware is to blame for half of all PC crashes." |