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by Jeff Foster on Wed Jun 23, 2004 at 12:07:44 AM PDT

How old is your daughter? The computer I described above had a Teenage(15?)girl on it. I suspect there is a cottage industry that plants spyware in software that appeals to teenage girls(pretty screen savers and the like). After all, it's pretty obvious that a substantial amount of spyware is targeted at teenage boys, or at least it is contained in software that appeals to the teenage boy in all of us, so why not target the other half?

I don't know how the Non-tech can survive either. I just got back from cleaning a Brand NEW machine of no less then 4 different worms. The woman who had bought it had plugged it right into her brand spanking new DSL modem with no firewall in between, and of course within 10 minutes she had Sasser, Red Alert and any number of other worms. The machine restarted within 30 seconds of establishing an network connection. Trusted Computing at it's finest I guess.

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