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Article: Beware spyware -- infections on rise for PC users, but not Apple iMacs.
- Article from:
- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- November 30, 2004
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Byline: Greg Bolt
Nov. 30--About a week ago, Cameron Nichols' laptop started to slow down. Then it would freeze up when he tried to get onto certain Web sites. Finally, it replaced his regular desktop image with an ad.
When Nichols, a University of Oregon sophomore, took the balky Dell into the UO's computer shop, he found that he had become one of the thousands of campus victims of the latest PC plague: spyware.
"Within a matter of a few days it really went downhill," Nichols said, while a technician worked to clean the malignant files off his hard drive.
"Multiple times I'd try to get on a Web site and it would freeze up."
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