One In Six Computers Has Spyware Infection
The threat of rootkits (define) seems to have faded from public consciousness in recent months, with key loggers and Trojans getting most of the attention. However, a survey by Internet security vendor Prevx finds that quite a few PCs are infected with rootkits. Prevx has a free scanner called Prevx CSI that looks for rootkit infections and, after just a few weeks of testing, the results were not pretty. Prevx first started giving out CSI to perform scans for malware and adware in October. Of the 291,000 users who downloaded Prevx CSI, one in six found some kind of infection.