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Who Can You Trust?

ACM News Service: Understanding Spyware - Risk and Response.  2004-11-13: This blurb emphasizes what I call the ultimate trust irony for computer security.  The easiest means of inserting spyware deeply onto a system is via software that is alleged to provide anti-spyware measures and heightened computer security.

The Wes Ames article for the IT Professional September/October 2004 issue is available as a promotional PDF download.  The paper provides a nice explanation of the progressive levels of spyware and then looks at detection and prevention approaches.

posted by orcmid at 11/30/2004 03:30:29 PM, rating data by NewsGator Online