, 2004-11-26
Some of the largest anti-virus companies have virtually ignored the spyware problem because there is no profit incentive for them to do otherwise. Meanwhile, spyware companies make millions.
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On the other hand there are at least 7 major enterprise-enabled anti-spyware packages that are available right now and three more that are soon to be released. So there is a market for such a tool, there are vendors who see that market, and there are plenty of buyers and the demand is increasing.
What other non-seeing vendors will do is as they usually do: Add such value to their products or watch the competition gain momentum.
As far as spyware itself is concerned, it's not a worm, virus, or Trojan, so maybe some AV vendors don't want to morph into a full blown content filtering company.
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