Toms View of the World

Ever wonder why those spyware authors are so keen to get their advertising toolbars, keyloggers, trojans and everything else onto your PC? Well, according to this article from The Register each infected PC is worth $3 a year. Now that doesn’t sound much, but multiply it by the estimate that 70% of all PC’s on the internet are infected with some kind of spyware, and it’s a lot of money.

Everyone listen. Anti-spyware tools are now as important as anti-virus tools. If you’ve never checked for spyware - now’s the time - Earthlink have provided an on-line spyware audit service which will tell you if your PC is infected with any nasties - it won’t remove them, but there are plenty of tools like AdAware to help you do this.

Thanks to the folks at Lockergnome for bringing attention to this story!