Big Security Guns Should Aim Carefully at Adware, Spyware: "It's been widely recognized for some time that defining software in the 'spyware' and 'adware' categories is tricky business, and that these types of programs are not the unambiguous threats that viruses are. For years the big security vendors dealt with the problem by ignoring it, or perhaps by making half-hearted attempts to combat it. None of them had an anti-spyware product considered even second class. But now the big guys are stepping into the spyware business. In many ways fighting spyware and adware is exactly like the anti-virus business?the pattern and heuristic scanners these companies have created should be useful against spyware and adware?but they need to know what to scan for. That's the tricky part."


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