Business

The first recorded use of the term spyware occurred on October 16, 1995 in a Usenet post that poked fun at Microsoft’s business model. Spyware is a continuing problem for business today. In many cases, the companies whose advertisements appear in spyware pop-ups do not directly do business with the spyware firm. Worm outbreaks have become a cyclical plague for both home users and businesses, eclipsed recently in terms of damage by spyware. They differ in that their creators present themselves openly as businesses, for instance by selling advertising space on the pop-ups created by the malware. Although many people view adware as undesirable, it is also a key component of a business model that can bring value to consumers in exchange for receiving advertisements.

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I want to write you to warn you about an email threat that has been going around a LOT recently — unless you’re very lucky, you’ve probably seen this one.

This one is a pretty big risk, but like a lot of the computer threats these days, they can so sneaky that you’ll never know they’re happening. Let me tell you how to know if you might be at risk from it.

It’s called the “Storm Worm”, and it’s been going around since January of 2007, but has gotten a lot worse since the beginning of June.

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