Spyware Threat to the Corporation

Spyware poses significant threats to corporations such as:

• Compromised security of corporate information, data and intellectual property
• Diminished workstation performance
• Increased service burden on IT staff
• Reduced employee productivity
• Increased bandwidth consumption

92% of corporate IT managers at companies with more than 100 employees claim they have a "major" spyware problem.*

Nearly 60% of enterprise systems have unsolicited adware embedded on user computers. Detection and removal require specialized programs, because another insidious effect of spyware is that it installs itself very deeply in a system, sometimes creating thousands of registry entries.**

*Web@Work Study, March 2004
**Internetnews.com, June 2004