IT Observer - One in three PCs hosts spyware or Trojans

One in three PCs hosts spyware or Trojans
Thursday, 17 June 2004, 20:18 GMT

An average of one in three PCs scanned in March and April was carrying a system monitor or Trojan horse hidden on its hard drive. The research, carried out by privacy firm Webroot Software and ISP EarthLink, warned that these sorts of spyware can forward information about a user's online activities to another individual or company without the user's knowledge or permission. Scans of 650,000 consumer PCs performed between 1 March and 30 April found more than 18 million instances of spyware.

Trojan horses are applications that appear to be genuine software programs, but instead hide secret and malicious code that can allow hackers to gain unrestricted access to computers while users are online.

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