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By Dawn Kawamoto
Posted on ZDNet News: Oct 27, 2004 5:08:00 PM

While a majority of companies are increasingly concerned about the growth of spyware on their employees' desktops, few are using anti-spyware technology, according to survey results released Wednesday.

In a nationwide survey of IT managers and executives, 70 percent expressed growing concern over spyware, yet fewer than than 10 percent have installed anti-spyware software, according to a statement issued by Webroot, the Boulder, Colo., security software company that commissioned the survey. The survey was conducted by Equation Research.

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Cost of Security
You're right, I don't get it.

I get the bit where you say that it costs money to secure computer systems against unwanted software being installed, surreptitiously.

I also get the bit wh... (Read the rest)
Posted by: Stephen Wheeler Posted on: 11/03/04 You are currently: a Guest | | Terms of Use
I hate to say it  htotten | 10/27/04
Anti-Spyware Software  Chad_z | 10/27/04
Our costs have not gone up  toadlife | 10/27/04
Not to be to much  Cardinal_Bill | 10/27/04
Missing the point?  toadlife | 10/27/04
Ditto here  PA-ITGuy | 10/27/04
Let's try again.  Cardinal_Bill | 10/27/04
Try all you like  PA-ITGuy | 10/27/04
Damn...  Cardinal_Bill | 10/27/04
OK, It's not free  PA-ITGuy | 10/27/04
Cost of Security  Stephen Wheeler | 11/03/04
I'm surpirsed you're continuing this line of defence  Richard Flude | 10/27/04
To begin with  PA-ITGuy | 10/27/04
Actually you've said it repeatedly  Richard Flude | 10/27/04
Re: Actually you've said it repeatedly  PA-ITGuy | 10/27/04
To PA  Roger Ramjet | 10/28/04
The shill is strong in you  NonZealot | 10/27/04
The shill is strong in you also  middle of nowhere | 10/27/04
...  toadlife | 10/27/04
The shill is stronger in you  NonZealot | 10/27/04
I prefer it Windows not install Spyware  voska | 10/27/04
Firewalls  mobrien_12@... | 10/27/04
i use a differnet firewall  V Sanders | 10/27/04
No argument from me there.  mobrien_12@... | 10/27/04
Corporate, corporate. corporate  htotten | 10/28/04
only because  V Sanders | 10/27/04
Shill is Shrill  Roger Ramjet | 10/28/04
Spybot is your friend...  wolf_z | 10/28/04
Commercial options  ibabadur1 | 10/27/04
Yawn  Yagotta B. Kidding | 10/27/04
This is news to me  NonZealot | 10/27/04
You mnay run into problems running the executable  Sunny Jalolly | 10/27/04
I addition to Sunny's response  Roger Ramjet | 10/28/04
Focus shill  NonZealot | 10/28/04
IE's fault  DarthRidiculous | 10/27/04
Expectations and knowledge  Sunny Jalolly | 10/27/04
Expectations and knowledge  htotten | 10/28/04
most corporations do not *encrypt*  V Sanders | 10/27/04
most corporations  htotten | 10/28/04
Bigger problem or final solution?  Update victim | 10/28/04
Divide  htotten | 10/28/04
Why do companies take so long?  OldeTimeGeek | 10/28/04

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