Spyware

The study shows little difference the percentage of Americans who had
anti-spyware software installed (82 percent) and the percentage who said they
had it installed (83 percent). Still, close to one-fifth of all users do not
have adequate spyware defenses.

Malware vendors hide well, however they do make mistakes. Distributors of Antivirus XP were bold enough and dumb enough to buy advertisements on Google Adwords! You get it right: someone looking for anti-virus software on Google search engine was offered Antivirus XP by official adds from Google. The scam was noticed pretty soon. Security experts all over the web guess that this mistake was the one that revealed names of AntivirusXP vendors. Victims of Antivirus XP can start celebrating as the distributors won’t get away easily.