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Computer snooping a growing security problem
One person "lost everything." For someone else, everything "just shut
down."
These people were not reciting the impact of a hurricane or tornado.
Rather, they were telling what happened when their computers became
infected by programs known as spyware.
The comments, part of a study released Wednesday by the Pew Internet &
American Life Project, show just how big a problem spyware has become
to the nation's estimated 135 million Internet users. The project
surveyed 2,000 people by phone in May and June.
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