The Average PC is Infested with Spyware

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Average computer infested with spy
software

Average computer infested with spy
software 04/16/2004 11:32 AM
BBC Apr 16 2004 4:22PM GMT

PCs infested with 30 pieces of spyware

PCs infested with 30 pieces of spyware 04/16/2004 07:40 AM
vnunet.com Apr 16 2004 11:55AM GMT

The average PC: spyware hotel

The average PC: spyware hotel 04/16/2004 10:20 AM
28 items per machine, audit reveals

Average PC harbouring 28 bits of spyware

Average PC harbouring 28 bits of spyware 04/18/2004 10:46 PM
Silicon.com Apr 19 2004 3:15AM GMT

Trojan-infested? I'm Sorry, Your Time is
Up

Trojan-infested? I'm Sorry, Your Time is
Up 04/13/2005 04:36 AM
An Australian ISP is pulling the plug on users whose computers have been compromised until they clean up their machines. Telstra Bigpond has begun disconnecting users whose computers had been infected. "Customers with suspected compromised PCs are being contacted where possible to encourage them to rectify the issue and if necessary are being disconnected from the network while the issue is rectified," the ISP said.

Bigpond is Australia's largest ISP, but said that its network was being so overwhelmed with bogus DNS requested that some customers were reporting slowdowns in legitmate uses. The ISP said it had also boosted the capacity of its DNS server.


"Ongoing investigations have identified Trojan-infected customer PCs as the likely source of the false DNS requests," BigPond said. "Customers contacted in recent weeks in relation to their PCs issuing large numbers of false DNS requests have been found to have PCs infected with various viruses and trojans and lacking network security."

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Oracle infested with bugs

Oracle infested with bugs 08/04/2004 07:52 AM
ZDNet Aug 4 2004 12:23PM GMT

Report: Third of spam spread by
RAT-infested PCs

Report: Third of spam spread by
RAT-infested PCs 12/03/2003 02:40 PM
About 30 percent of spam on the Web is relayed through PCs compromised by malicious programs known as Remote Access Trojans, according to a corporate spam and antivirus company.

Trash Removed From Vermin-Infested House
(AP)

Trash Removed From Vermin-Infested House
(AP) 08/05/2004 11:00 PM
AP - Bulldozers and dump trucks hauled away more than 20 loads of trash and waste from a vermin-infested house on Thursday that had been the subject of complaints for decades.

Yahoo's Offers New Anti-Spyware Tool...
That Actually Finds Spyware

Yahoo's Offers New Anti-Spyware Tool...
That Actually Finds Spyware 08/05/2004 03:50 AM
It appears that Yahoo heard the backlash loud and clear a few months back when they released an anti-spyware tool that just so happened to skip over adware from Yahoo partners. The latest version, built on PestPatrol's technology will now default to notifying users of both "spyware" and what they consider to be "adware" and then give the user the choice of what to do. I haven't tested the product yet, but it sounds like they're moving in the right direction. It still makes you wonder what they were thinking in offering a purposely crippled offering. People know what spyware is, and telling them that spyware isn't spyware doesn't change how people feel about it. It also doesn't make them look kindly back at the company that provided them with the bogus anti-spyware tool in the first place.

Spyware Company Sues Utah Over
Anti-Spyware Law

Spyware Company Sues Utah Over
Anti-Spyware Law 04/13/2004 03:42 PM

Yahoo's Famed Anti-Spyware App Allows
Spyware From Partners

Yahoo's Famed Anti-Spyware App Allows
Spyware From Partners 06/02/2004 10:10 AM
We didn't write about Yahoo's new "anti-spyware" toolbar that they announced last week, because it seemed to receive plenty of hype, and there were no real reviews of how it worked. There are so many so-called anti-spyware applications out there that don't actually stop spyware and adware for fear of upsetting marketing companies or out of worries that actually stopping spyware may make some applications stop working (upsetting the user), that we figured Yahoo's anti-spyware app (hype and all) probably wouldn't be much to bother with. It certainly looks like that may be the case. eWeek is now reporting that Yahoo tries to dance the careful dance of not upsetting certain companies who threate n to sue people who call their application spyware. Of course, the situation is even more complex because Claria (who you probably know as Gator - despite their attempt to change their name to shake that spyware label) is also a partner of Yahoo. So, it's really not surprising that the default setting for Yahoo's anti-spyware app won't actually remove services like Gator or WhenU. Instead, Yahoo's spyware remover claims these programs are "adware" and will only remove them if you click and extra check box each time you run the program. In other words, once again, you can't trust a provider of anti-spyware software, because they're playing both sides of the fence: partnering with providers on the one hand, and then offering weak removal products on the other. If Yahoo were serious about removing spyware from the computers of users they would refuse to partner with companies that used surreptitious tactics to be installed on computers. Instead, they want to look good to users in the front, while letting in spyware/adware from partners through the backdoor.

AOL Offers Spyware Stopper... Just After
They Started Offering Spyware

AOL Offers Spyware Stopper... Just After
They Started Offering Spyware 04/22/2004 02:36 AM
Just a few weeks after saying that they're going to start bundling spyware/adware with their instant messenger product, AOL announces their latest anti-spyware application. While we've been complaining about anti-spyware from ISPs that just points out the spyware, AOL claims that this version will disable (though not delete) the spyware. I wonder if it will catch the spyware that AOL installs themselves.

Average

Average 03/08/2004 11:05 PM
Found the following article via Roger Ailes. He brings it up about the Liberal Media myth, I focus on the stupid teen factor. My...

Not your average sex bl0g

Not your average sex bl0g 07/11/2004 07:35 PM
Working Girls Jay, your average john, discusses his experiences with Working Girls -- as in, they work the "oldest profession". Nicole, a Working Girl, shares her experiences. Together, they try to educate people about what it means to be a "Callgirl" and the motivations behind those who are johns and prostitutes.

Not Just Your Average Loser

Not Just Your Average Loser 03/19/2003 10:27 PM
The person who becomes a virus writer fits a definite profile: Young, male, computer-obsessed, awkward around women. There are plenty of them out there, and plenty of new targets for them to attack.

More bling than the average rapper

More bling than the average rapper 08/30/2004 09:53 AM

Mac OS X, UNIX, And The "Average" Mac
User

Mac OS X, UNIX, And The "Average" Mac
User 09/07/2004 12:03 PM
For better or wose, I beleive that effective Mac OS X troubleshooting still requires a familiarity with tbe basics of UNIX and Terminal. By Ted Landau, MacFixIt (via MyAppleMenu)

Take average earner out of top tax net:
ESRI

Take average earner out of top tax net:
ESRI 06/29/2004 09:54 PM
Irish Examiner Jun 30 2004 1:37AM GMT

Investment Folio for Average Joe

Investment Folio for Average Joe 12/28/2004 07:15 AM
Online investing brought stock trading to the masses, but some investment options remain limited to the rich. Now an online services company offers customized portfolios for the rest of us. By Skip Kaltenheuser.

Average PC has 28 spywarez running on it

Average PC has 28 spywarez running on it 04/16/2004 11:50 AM
Earthlink's spyware-hunting add-on has been running since January. In that time, it's found an average of 28 spyware apps on users' PCs.

The Spy Audit by EarthLink reflects the results of scans involving over one million computers between January and March.

It uncovered more than 29.5 million examples of spyware. These are parasite programs sometimes come attached to software downloaded from the web.

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Traffic and the Average Website

Traffic and the Average Website 12/24/2004 12:53 PM
"How can we categorize traffic for the average website? It’s pretty simple, actually – the average website doesn’t get any traffic to speak of..."

It's depressing, but it's true -- click here to learn about the kind of traffic most web sites get

Thoughts of An Average Woman

Thoughts of An Average Woman 03/26/2005 05:36 AM
eco-terrorist junk science

cepetro.blogspot.com/2005/03/epa-lied.html
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Not Your Average Popcorn Popper

Not Your Average Popcorn Popper 04/08/2005 01:14 AM
You might have noticed there is a lot of Star Wars merchandise hitting with the new movie. An unusual and cool new line comes from Snappy Popcorn, maker of full sized commercial popcorn machines you can buy for your well equipped home theater, pool area, recreation room, or to be the centerpiece of your family room. There are five styles of machines and carts available. You can put just the machine on a counter, or get the cart so you can move it around. See photos of the machines here...

Average Internet self-identity

Average Internet self-identity 11/10/2003 11:24 PM
Inter.Face is the winner of last year's Machinista Russian art festival. It invites visitors to drag and-drop graphic facial-anatomy elements to avatars of themselves; once the project ran through, all the avatars were combined and smoothed to generate an "average net self-identity." Link

Average User Not Likely To Pounce On
Tiger

Average User Not Likely To Pounce On
Tiger 07/03/2004 10:01 AM
While Tiger claims 150 new features, just as Panther did, an average user won't notice or care about most of them. By Glenn Fleishman, Seattle Times (via MyAppleMenu)

Fan-magazine picks a different average
person for every ish

Fan-magazine picks a different average
person for every ish 12/27/2004 10:38 AM
Cory Doctorow: Each issue of Re-Magazine pocks a random, average person and uses her or him as the basis for an entire magazine's worth of articles and photo-spreads -- pictured here is Marcel,a 44-year-old sales rep from Wavrin, France. Link (via Salad With Steve)

UK sees average WAP usage double

UK sees average WAP usage double 05/10/2004 04:06 PM
Telecoms.com May 10 2004 7:56PM GMT

Windows XP SP2 is more than your average
service pack

Windows XP SP2 is more than your average
service pack 05/18/2004 09:07 PM
Computer Weekly May 19 2004 1:19AM GMT

British Women's Purses Average Over
$1K (AP)

British Women's Purses Average Over
$1K (AP) 09/16/2004 03:34 PM
AP - British women are packing some pricey handbags. The average British woman's handbag is worth about $1,037, according to a survey published Wednesday that examined both the cost of the bag and its contents.

Average incomes 'fell last year'

Average incomes 'fell last year' 03/31/2005 03:11 AM
Take-home pay fell for the first time since the recession of the early 1990s, the Institute of Fiscal Studies says.

Average Investors And The Google IPO:
Not Easy, Not Interested

Average Investors And The Google IPO:
Not Easy, Not Interested 08/03/2004 09:40 PM
One of the reasons Google claimed they planned to go with a Dutch Auction IPO process was to make sure the Wall Street fat cats didn't run off with all the money and toss the shares to their friends. They said they wanted the "average investor" to be able to take part in the IPO. That seems like a good idea... but there are a couple of problems. It appears many average investors aren't at all interested in Google shares, especially at the price they've set. Even worse, the investment banks (who never liked the whole idea of opening their doors to the riff raff investors anyway) are making it as difficult as possible to sign up to get your shares. Many of the banks are turning away investors as not being "appropriate" or setting up $50,000 to $100,000 initial investment accounts as a requirement to bid. There are a couple of discount brokers who will let you in without a problem, but without a clear indication, most "average users" who call up one of the random underwriters on the list may be shocked to find the $50,000 ante a bit... steep. Instead, we seem to be getting a bunch of people who work their way through the process just so they can see what it's like. That's not quite the way Google was pitching this IPO.

Average investors cool to Google IPO
fever

Average investors cool to Google IPO
fever 08/04/2004 06:41 AM
Gomemphis.com - Wed Aug 4, 06:15 am GMT

Average Retail Gas Prices Soar 19 Cents
(AP)

Average Retail Gas Prices Soar 19 Cents
(AP) 04/10/2005 04:05 PM
AP - Gas prices soared an average 19 cents in the past three weeks due to lingering high crude oil prices, growing demand and higher refining costs, an industry analyst said Sunday.

" interface - average portrait of .ru
internet users"

" interface - average portrait of .ru
internet users" 11/10/2003 11:14 PM

Average net profits of listed firms
neared 100 bln

Average net profits of listed firms
neared 100 bln 04/17/2005 06:40 AM
Maekyung Internet Apr 17 2005 10:47AM GMT

Phishing Sites Average 54 Hour Life

Phishing Sites Average 54 Hour Life 08/16/2004 04:22 PM
theWHIR Aug 16 2004 8:16PM GMT

Michelle Malkin: Just Your Average
Democrat Donors

Michelle Malkin: Just Your Average
Democrat Donors 07/08/2004 07:16 AM
the little guy!

townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/mm20040707.shtml
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Martin Fowler: Can average developers
use agile methods?

Martin Fowler: Can average developers
use agile methods? 05/02/2004 03:30 PM
I've often heard the claim that agile methods can only be used by the better developers and that average or below average developers should avoid agile methods. When I get asked this, I have to answer that I don't know the answer - and that this ignorance is natural with any new technique.

Two points.

First Martin points out that the bazaar (open source methodologies) is an agile method. Secondly, although PHP in itself is not an agile metholodogy (err, its a language), it has a pragmatic flavour that makes it suitable for people of all levels.

Two opinions.

I believe the wide growth of open source and even more explosive popularity of PHP is proof that agile methods work with people without expensive computer science degrees. However if Martin is trying to say that you cannot create great projects with only mediocre contributors, than i agree. Good leadership is always important. Ask Linus.

Average Gasoline Price Tops $2 a
Gallon (Reuters)

Average Gasoline Price Tops $2 a
Gallon (Reuters) 05/17/2004 04:34 PM
Reuters - The U.S. national price for gasoline busted above the $2 a gallon threshold for the first time ever, jumping 7.6 cents over the last week to a record high $2.017 a gallon on Monday, the government said.
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