Enterprises not running from spyware battle

The recent State of Spyware report from security vendor Webroot, an anti-spyware software company, isn't very pretty. Spyware creators are only getting nastier and smarter and the infection rate keeps climbing. Spyware developers are now using social networking sites to push adware and spyware onto users' desktops and there are now over 500,000 such malicious sites on the web, according to Webroot. Furthermore, the report notes that a staggering 89 percent of all consumer PCs are infected. In the face of this threat, business IT security teams are not just sitting idle and are making significant inroads in the battle with spyware. Infection rates are slightly decreasing on the enterprise level with the average infected work PC housing 19 pieces of spyware--two less than a year ago.

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