[description], Story, any other text you want to use.

 by: Grant Rogers

The US House of Representatives has recently passed the "Spy Act" - or to give it its full title - the Securely Protect Yourself Against Cyber Trespass Act. This aims to prevent software companies from installing spyware on users PCs without their knowledge, and anyone found guilty of breaching the act faces a fine of up to $3 million.

Does this mean the end of spyware as we know it? Unfortunately the answer is no, not really. The problem is that most spyware can continue to operate in exactly the same way as it does now, by asking the computer user to agree to a licence before it installs itself. The majority of people who are faced with a lengthy legal-looking page of text when installing a new program, automatically click the "I Agree" option without reading the terms. Therefore spyware programs can quite legally continue to piggy-back their way onto PCs.

Add to this the fact that a large percentage of spyware originates from outside the US, and it quickly becomes clear that the Spy Act realistically has about as much chance of success as the Can-Spam act did in attempting to stop the deluge of junk email that arrives in our mailboxes every day.

Spyware can be a lucrative business for advertisers and software vendors, and with the average home PC already carrying around 26 spyware and adware programs, it's a problem that looks set to become worse before it gets better. In time, additional international laws may reduce the problem, but for the present at least, every PC user should keep up-to-date anti-spyware software running on their machine.

About The Author Grant Rogers is an independent computer security consultant. You can find more information on anti-spyware and adware software at http://www.spyware-adware.info

Real Time Media On The Net

production
free internet tv
fox tv
way radio
sound system
chennal
video compression
amateur radio
steaming
broadband multimedia
fast internet access
tv commercials
free video hosting
free online radio
cable tv channel
cbc radio
network cable
directtv

Main Menu
Real Time Media On The Net
Site Map

News for 25-Jul-10

Source: BBC News - Home
A new journalism

Source: BBC News - Home
General Electric raises dividend

Source: BBC News - Home
Review into Venables supervision

Source: BBC News - Home
Be careful what you tweet

Source: BBC News - Home
Neurons 'show way for computers'

Source: BBC News - Home
Microsoft gets at chip blueprints

Source: BBC News - Home
Norway memorial to British heroes

Source: BBC News - Home
'Eternal plane' returns to Earth

Source: BBC News - Home
Richard Desmond buys channel Five

Source: BBC News - Home
Cavendish wins fourth Tour stage