28 abril 2004

TECNOSFERA

A Web of Electronic Denial: Spyware is far sneakier than we had ever imagined. [...]
The same goes for music files, games and video clips -- hardly anyone will admit to downloading, installing or using these things on their work computers, but despite protestations of innocence, somehow these time-, space- and bandwidth-wasting applications and files have infested corporate computers across America [...]
Six percent of the employees surveyed admitted that they have downloaded spyware onto their office computers. But network administrators responding to the same survey estimated that almost 30 percent of the computers in their office networks have been infected by spyware at one time or another.