Sunday, May 15, 2005

Spyware: the new frontier of cheating

The spyware allows to track a computer’s Web browsing behavior in order to deliver targeted advertisements to that computer. Thus, if a computer with spyware visits music-related Internet sites, the spyware sends a signal of the computer user’s activity back to the spyware installers which then target the computer with advertisements from music-oriented companies that paid for access to the computer through spyware.
Somebody claimed access to 12 million computers in the United States and gained national media attention (and criticism) for having obtained such access.
http://voipniche.com/voip/spyware-the-new-frontier-of-cheating.html
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