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The_never_ending_Spywarestory
| The never ending Spyware......story
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. Point to ponder while resting….recent eWeek.com
tests reveal that some Vendors are failing to provide solutions
when it comes to finding and permanently destroying Viruses and
Spyware.
Rested? Then let’s look at it from another angle shall we?
Without the person somewhere in the world writing the virus or
Spyware, there would be no need for the person that is writing
the program to combat it. There would be no need for the company
that employs the person writing the programs to combat the virus
or Spyware. No need for the Businesses that sell the programs
the company markets. Still with me? Good. And finally, No need
for the user, you, to protect yourself. I hope this lil exercise
has proved informative.
Take Care.
About the author:
About the Author: Doug Woodall has a website at
http://www.spywarebiz.com There he provides free information and
recommended products to combat Spyware. He is a member of the
IWA (International Webmasters Association) Doug can be reached
at spywarebiz@comcast.net Article edited for proper content by
Wendy McCallum Permission to copy ok as long as about author
info remains with article. Copyright 2005 SpywareBiz
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