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...Technology analyst firm IDC estimates that two thirds of all PCs are infected with some kind of spyware. It's easy to check yours: a number of web sites, such as lavasoftusa.com, offer free scanning and removal of spyware. Microsoft is getting into the anti-spyware game, too, and its new technology is free during the testing period...
...spyware that's pretending to be anti-spyware. There are some 200 rogue anti-spyware applications out there, says Webroot CEO David Moll. Surreptitious software hijacks a user's computer, then pops up a little box-looking for all the world like it's been generated by Microsoft-warning the computer has been infected. It then asks the user to click on a link to download anti-spyware. The money goes into the rogue's pocket, and the computer is still sick. "That's as sneaky as it gets," says Moll. "Spyware is advancing in sophistication, and is playing...
...Google's credit, there are companies that have made far worse bargains in China and haven't got half the public spanking for it. In December the Chinese government took offense at the contents of a blog hosted by Microsoft's MSN service. Microsoft promptly clamped it shut, noting that the company had to obey the law of the land. Earlier last year Beijing investigated a man who used Yahoo! for his e-mail. Yahoo! promptly handed over his computer's IP address. Yahoo! now has one less customer: the man got 10 years for leaking "state secrets...
...hard to be a free Chinese person. Damn Great Wall, damn Microsoft." ZHAO JING, Chinese journalist, in a message posted on a new blog after his previous site on Microsoft's MSN Spaces service was shut down under pressure from Chinese authorities...
TECHNOLOGY Let the (High-Definition) Games Begin Microsoft's Xbox 360 has the advantage of having already shipped, but Sony's competing game console may be worth the wait. Due out in May, the PS3 is supposed to have better graphics and will support up to seven wireless game pads (Xbox 360 allows four). PS3's best advantage: it will play high-definition Blu-ray DVDs. But at an expected retail price of $400 to $500, it won't come cheap. By Arlyn Tobias Gajilan...