The Never Ending Spyware Story
by: Doug Woodall
It’s been with us since 1993, it’s gotten more intrusive, more complicated. It’s created a whole ecosystem, so to speak.
A person sits somewhere, writing a new virus, a new application of Spyware. It is put onto the Internet and Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware vendors begin to develop definitions to combat it, maybe even to stop it permanently. These fixes are incorporated into the new versions of the software they sell, or distribute as freeware. Existing companies, businesses, and users struggle to keep up with what to use, overwhelmed, their lifeline to the Internet depends on it.
In this portion of the ecosystem you have; The end user. YOU! Your Internet Provider, Hosting Service, ect. The businesses on the Internet, all of em. The existing companies and vendors providing the Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware Programs. Adding to this ecosystem, new companies start up to get into the rapidly exploding business, marketing their own software. More additions occur as new businesses start up to sell the software the companies have produced. New and old online users buy upgraded and new software to try and protect their personal information from being stolen.
Interlaced into all the above is the knowledge required to know how to protect ourselves with the basics. A hardware or software Firewall, Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware.
Whew! Ok, rest.
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The Never Ending Spyware Story
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About The Author
Doug Wood all has a web site at http://www.spywarebiz.com.
There he provides free information and recommended products to combat Spy ware.
He is a member of the IWA (International Webmasters Association).
Article edited for proper content by Wendy McCallum.
Permission to copy ok as long as about author info remains with article.
Copyright 2005 SpywareBiz
spywarebiz@comcast.net
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