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Spyware be gone!

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netWorker, Volume 9, Issue 1

Pages 18 - 25

https://doi.org/10.1145/1050831.1050832

Published: 01 March 2005 Publication History

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The times they are a-changing: White is the new black. Thirty is the new 20. And spyware is the new spam---with a dash of virus mixed in for good measure. (Of course, we still have plenty of original-flavor spam and viruses hanging around, too). What the old-school intruders have going for them is that they are relatively straightforward to define. Spyware, in its broadest sense, is harder to pin down. Yet many feel, as the late Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart once said, "I know it when I see it."

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netWorker Volume 9, Issue 1

Agents of destruction: fending off spyware

March 2005

35 pages

ISSN:1091-3556

EISSN:1558-3473

DOI:10.1145/1050831

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