Earthlink.net reported the results of their customers running Webroot’s Spy Audit program. The Earthlink study found an average of 28 instances of spyware per audited host. They also found over 184,000 installations of “system monitors,” which Earthlink defines as programs that “can capture virtually everything you do on your computer, from keystrokes, emails, and chat room dialogue to which sites you visit and which programs you run” Earthlink offers their own download, elsypaudit-i386-windows-all-2004.”]
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