As spyware frustrates, technology companies feel heat

As spyware frustrates, technology companies feel heat
Allison Linn, The Associated Press 2004-10-31

The people who call Dell Inc.'s customer service line often have no idea why their computers are running so slow. The ones who call America Online Inc. can't necessarily explain why Internet connections keep dropping. And those who file error reports with Microsoft Corp. don't always know why their computers inexplicably crash.

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As spyware frustrates, technology companies feel heat 2004-11-01
Anonymous

I guess there are a couple of issues here:

Microsoft should fix their browser (check Secunia for outstanding issues)

New technology is needed with our configurations to default 'deny' outbound connections. This is problematic though as most people have no clue on how to run a firwal...

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TCO anyone? 2004-11-01
Anonymous

another thing that silently adds to the TCO issue....

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As spyware frustrates, technology companies feel heat 2004-11-02
Drew Miller

In the article...

"they think security should come with it"

Well, guess what. It should come with it.

Companies will continue to make money from functional and yet insecure software for only so long. There is no authentication, no customer education or control to stop my own mom who has no ...

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As spyware frustrates, technology companies feel heat 2004-11-02
Geeks On Call

I work for an IT Consulting Firm and over 80% of our calls are on PC's that are heavily infected with spyware yet if these people would practice safer web surfing i.e. no P2P programs, quit opening SPAM, downloading so called free games, utilites, etc, and keep their PC's fully updated even on an XP...

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As spyware frustrates, technology companies feel heat 2004-11-02
Anonymous (1 replies)

This is simple to control, don't let users load software on their computers. It really is an internal problem on the way companies manage PCs. Either the user owns them or the company owns them. If the user owns them then make them responsible. If the company owns them then lock them down.

Lo...

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As spyware frustrates, technology companies feel heat 2004-11-04
Chitown's Windy City

December 1, 2003

I did a Google search of the TCO of owning a PC ?Total Cost of Ownership of a PC? and it yielded the links to these sites... these were all taken from the first page of the search?s hit results!

1) ?Industry analysts estimate the total cost of ownership in a non-homogenous co...

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