97 percent of users can't spot spyware
A survey by security outfit McAfee has revealed that 97 percent of users could not spot spyware if it bit them on the nose.
Its SiteAdvisor branch gave users a test to see if they could identify the clues that indicated that something was spy or adware, and only three percent of the 14,000 who took the test got perfect scores.
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