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Spyware Software: Anti-Spyware Software
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A recent study by Webroot Software, a provider of corporate anti-spyware solutions, surveyed 275 IT managers and executives regarding their company's response to spyware. Although over 70% of companies have become more concerned about spyware in the past six months, 96% feel their current anti-virus and firewall software offer enough protection, and only 10% have implemented commercially available anti-spyware software. Demonstrating the ineffectiveness of this approach, about 82% of respondents' desktops have been infected with spyware.
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Founded in 1999, Lavasoft is "the original anti-spyware company." Ad-Aware boasts over 250,000 million downloads worldwide, more than any other anti-spyware software. A private company headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden, Lavasoft is committed to corporate responsibility and ethical conduct. It works directly with the makers of spyware and malware to meet Lavasoft's strict criteria for spyware and malware definitions. Lavasoft has 4,000 partners in 120 countries.
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ATLANTA, June 27 /PRNewswire/ -- TrueProtection Software, LLC, an Atlanta-based software company, announced today the launch of its proactive anti-spyware application, TrueProtection. This proactive spyware application was created specifically for small to medium-sized businesses as the next generation to the traditional, definition-based anti-spyware a.....
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ANTI-SPYWARE SOFTWARE DEFINITION (continued):
cocktail puts each e-mail message through a series of tests that provides a numeric score showing how likely the message is to be spam. Scores are computed and the message is assigned a probability rating. For example, it may be determined that a message has 85% probability that it is spam. E-mail administrators can create rules that govern how the messages are handled based on their scores; the highest scores may be deleted, medium scores may quarantined, and lower scores may be delivered but marked
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Founded in 2004 by 25-year industry veteran Nick Skrepetos, SUPERAntiSpyware.com is an established leader in anti-spyware software. Other product lines include the popular SUPERAdBlocker and SUPERFileRecover products. SUPERAntiSpyware can be found on the web at http://www.superantispyware.com.
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Technical Note: Your anti-spyware software may include some protection features. If you want to use IE-SPYAD, Spybot Search & Destroy, SpywareGuide Blocklist, SpywareBlaster, a hosts file or any combination of those, see IE-SPYAD: Restricted Sites List for Internet Explorer, by Eric Howes, on how the protection offered in each, affect the others. Specifically as it relates to 'Restricted Sites', 'Immunization' and hosts files.
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