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segunda-feira, dezembro 06, 2004

Worldwide anti-spyware market to increase to €229m in 2008

From a minor annoyance for home-PC users to a major plight on enterprise environments around the world, spyware (also known as adware, malware, scumware and a host of other sordid names) is infecting millions of computers with multiple purposes: stealing personal information, enabling identity theft, tracking users' online activity and selling the information back to anyone willing to pay. The need to identify and eradicate these parasitic programmes is to drive anti-spyware software revenues from €9m in 2003 to €229m in 2008, according to new research from market advisory firm IDC.
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