A Brief Description of Spyware

Since early use of the term in a Usenet post that was reported October 17, 1994, the word “spyware” began being used in a relatively joking manner with Microsoft products. Although the term used to refer to James Bond-type tiny spy cameras, in the year 2000 the term was used by Zone Labs Founder Gregor Freund in a ZoneAlarm Personal Firewall press release. And this term was adopted worldwide by online users thereafter.
In a nutshell what happened was that around the time the press release was published in 2000, Gibson Research’s Steve Gibson reported some advertising software that was installed on his system without his approval and knowledge beforehand with adware features that was sharing his personal information without his authorization. And the software was not easy to remove. Hence Gibson announced their initial anti spyware utility called, OptOut. And many more programs have since followed from companies all over.
Just the Facts….
 
If you think spyware isn’t serious, check out these facts reported in a November 2004 research survey conducted by National Cyber-Security Alliance and AOL. Studies showed that:

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