Spyware on your PC is a major threat to both privacy and productivity. Recent consumer studies indicate that 80% of PCs have some form of spyware infestation, and the PCs that were infested had an average of 90 spyware programs in place. Fortunately there are good, free tools available that can remove the threat from your system and immunize against future infestations.

Quick Facts:

Spyware is emerging as the biggest threat to privacy and productivity on the Internet, and is showing no signs of slowing down.

A recent study by America Online and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications found that 80 percent of PCs were infected by some form of spyware, and each infected PC had an average 90 different spyware packages installed.

In another study, IT managers rated spyware as the number one threat to their networks.

Security Pipeline assembled a package of articles to help you identify and eliminate spyware from your individual PC and enterprise network.

Spyware Protection For Everyone Spyware And Your PC: Keeping It Out, Getting Rid Of It Best practices for individual PC users looking to keep spyware-free, along with tips for getting rid of spyware if you get infected anyway.

First Look: Microsoft AntiSpyware 1.0 Beta Is A Winner TechWeb Pipelines Editor Scot Finnie finds that the new software effectively finds spyware while not mistakenly tagging benign software.

Recommended PC Anti-Spyware Products Columnist Wayne Rash provides an overview of products designed to clean your PC of spyware, and block the infections from coming back.

Despite the apparent toothless-ness of the CAN-SPAM law, IT executives haven't given up hope that government action can help against spyware.

Spyware Protection For The Large Organization How To Keep Spyware Off Your Enterprise Network Spyware isn't just a problem for consumers.

It sneaks onto enterprise networks, costing productivity and threatening to divulge confidential data.

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