Some 97 percent of Web surfers are just a click away from infecting their computers with adware and spyware, according to anti-malware software maker McAfee, of Santa Clara, Calif. McAfee came to that conclusion after analyzing 14,464 responses to a spyware quiz taken by consumers at its SiteAdvisor Web site. “Of the 14,000 people who took the spyware quiz, three percent got perfect scores, 97 percent got at least one wrong,” McAfee SiteAdvisor Market Strategist Shane Keats told TechNewsWorld.
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Survey Finds 97 Percent of Web Users a Click Away From Infection
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. April 27, 2006 07:50 AMSome 97 percent of Web surfers are just a click away from infecting their computers with adware and spyware, according to anti-malware software maker McAfee, of Santa Clara, Calif. McAfee came to that conclusion after analyzing 14,464 responses to a spyware quiz taken by consumers at its SiteAdvisor Web site. “Of the 14,000 people who took the spyware quiz, three percent got perfect scores, 97 percent got at least one wrong,” McAfee SiteAdvisor Market Strategist Shane Keats told TechNewsWorld.