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With an estimated 72 percent of PCs in homes now bogged down by an average 24 spyware infections each, and with the number of websites disseminating spyware skyrocketing, the question arises: who’s winning the war on spyware? Indeed, the latest “State of Spyware” quarterly report released by Webroot Software, a security software firm in Boulder, CO (from which the figures above were taken) contains chilling news: the bad guys are now bringing up their big guns, so-called “rootkit” technology and “polymorphic” code. Full Story