A new report [pdf] from Webroot declares a staggering 87% of PCs are infected with Spyware. This is just headline-grabbing fear-mongering at it’s worst.

It turns out that Webroot was counting “tracking cookies” as Spyware. We’re all familiar with this, every time you run most popular Ant-Spyware products, it alerts you to the dire warning of all the cookies installed on your machine.

Let’s set the record straight. Cookies may be a minor privacy risk, but the are not a significant security risk. Who decided cookies were Spyware anyway?

My prediction is in two years that the Ant-Spyware market will be dominated by the Ant-Virus vendors. The technology is basically the same. If the small players like Webroot want to compete they need to quit spouting falsehoods like this one, and start adding real value by making a better product.

Your Spycar Ran Over My Dogma [SecurityFix]

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