Security company Aladdin’s eSafe Content Security Response Team (CSRT) found that 15 percent of spyware threats succeed in copying a user’s passwords, usernames, hashes of an administrator’s passwords, instant messaging usage, email addresses and other sensitive information. The two-month analysis of top 2,000 known spyware threats shows that there is a growing amount of spyware specifically designed for identity theft. These spyware poses tremendous threats to both personal and commercial privacy, with potentially dangerous effects for large organizations in need of protecting proprietary information. Read a full article of this story.

Author’s recommendation:
For Windows users, please download ALL of the following three antispyware tools and run them once a WEEK on your personal computer. All these three tools are free for personal use:
Ad-Aware
Spybot Search and Destroy
Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware