Boulder-based Webroot Software Inc, in its recent research, discovered 89 % of consumers’ computers were infested with thirty pieces of spyware in the second quarter, escalating from 87 % in the first quarter. Spyware is the product of those wicked designer who secretly commit thefts of users’ sensitive and confidential information without his or her informed consent.



Since the beginning of 2004, Webroot has been hunting spyware and a few experts are of the opinion that the thread of spyware had reached its peak, to the ending of 2004; Webroot discovered 92 % of computers infested with spyware. However, as has been reported by the latest report, the crisis is not diminishing. C. David Moll, CEO of Webroot, quipped that the numbers are “pretty scary” as today the world is stuffed with loads of PCs comparing in 2004.



Besides spyware, Webroot also found out that the infectivity rate of Trojans on consumer computers went to 31 % from 29 % in the first quarter of 2006. Trojans are malevolent software that is active enough to commit theft of passwords and bank account information, which are remotely operated by the another computer. Whereas there is also a good news from the Webroot of a slight dip in the percentage of firms whose PCs were in the grip of spyware. The number came to nine in the second quarter from 21.5 in the first.



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