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dbarrow
05-17-2006, 10:18 AM
http://news.com.com/Keylogger+spying+at+work+on+the+rise%2C+survey+say s/2100-7355_3-6072948.html?tag=cd.lede

The number of companies reporting a spyware infestation has increased by almost half in the past 12 months, according to a new survey. ...
..."Despite the organizations' having a 'best of breed' antivirus, anti-spyware and firewall, we are still detecting a huge amount of back-channel spyware communication." ...
..."In April 2005, there were 77 unique password-stealing applications. In the latest March report, there were 197. Unique Web sites hosing keyloggers in the same time frame have gone up from 260 to 2,157--almost a 10-times growth," Camissar said. ...