Spyware Makers - Target Kids
Spyware makers are using new tactics by targeting kids and their computers in an effort to spread Adware software into their systems.
This is a growing trend and the outcomes are somewhat disturbing.
Gregg Keizer continues…
Mainstream childrens Web sites host a glut of adware, a security firm said this week, proof that spyware makers are targeting kids in an attempt to slip by parents and get their software onto home computers.
Over a three-month period, said Kraig Lane, a group product manager in Symantecs consumer division, his lab took new PCs out of the box, connected them to the Internet without monkeying with any of the default settings in Windows XP SP2, then surfed well-known sites in several categories, ranging from kids and sports to news and shopping.
