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Spyware on your PC is a major threat to both privacy and productivity. Recent consumer studies indicate that 80% of PCs have some form of spyware infestation, and the PCs that were infested had an average of 90 spyware programs in place. Fortunately there are good, free tools available that can remove the threat from your system and immunize against future infestations.
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Spyware is emerging as the biggest threat to privacy and productivity on the Internet.
A recent study by America Online and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications found that 80 percent of PCs were infected by some form of spyware, and each infected PC had an average 90 different spyware packages installed.
In another study, IT managers rated spyware as the number one threat to their networks.
Security Pipeline assembled a package of articles to help you identify and eliminate spyware from your individual PC and enterprise network.
Spyware Protection For Everyone Spyware And Your PC: Keeping It Out, Getting Rid Of It Best practices for individual PC users looking to keep spyware-free, along with tips for getting rid of spyware if you get infected anyway.
First of a series on anti-spyware for the consumer and enterprise.
Second of a series on anti-spyware for individual PCs and enterprise networks.
First Look: Microsoft AntiSpyware 1.0 Beta Is A Winner TechWeb Pipelines Editor Scot Finnie finds that the new software effectively finds spyware while not mistakenly tagging benign software.
Recommended PC Anti-Spyware Products Columnist Wayne Rash provides an overview of products designed to clean your PC of spyware, and block the infections from coming back.
Despite the apparent toothlessness of the CAN-SPAM law, IT executives haven't given up hope that government action can help against spyware.
Spyware Protection For The Large Organization How To Keep Spyware Off Your Enterprise Network Spyware isn't just a problem for consumers.
It sneaks onto enterprise networks, costing
productivity and threatening to divulge confidential data.
About the author: Mike Adams is a natural health author and award-winning journalist with a mission to teach personal and planetary health to the public He has authored more than 1,800 articles and dozens of reports, guides and interviews on natural health topics, and he is well known as the creator of popular downloadable preparedness programs on financial collapse, emergency food storage, wilderness survival and home defense skills. Adams is a trusted, independent journalist who receives no money or promotional fees whatsoever to write about other companies' products. In 2010, Adams co-founded NaturalNews.com, a natural health video sharing site that has now grown in popularity. He's also the founder and CEO of a well known email mail merge software developer whose software, 'Email Marketing Director,' currently runs the NaturalNews email subscriptions. Adams also serves as the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a non-profit consumer protection group, and regularly pursues cycling, nature photography, Capoeira and Pilates. He's also author of numerous health books published by Truth Publishing and is the creator of several consumer-oriented grassroots campaigns, including the Spam. Don't Buy It! campaign, and the free downloadable Honest Food Guide. He also created the free reference sites HerbReference.com and HealingFoodReference.com. Adams believes in free speech, free access to nutritional supplements and the ending of corporate control over medicines, genes and seeds. Known as the 'Health Ranger,' Adams' personal health statistics and mission statements are located at www.HealthRanger.org
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Tuesday, January 25, 2005
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