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    CA: "Kazaa is the biggest spyware threat"

    Posted on Saturday, November 27 2004 @ 20:02:47 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck


    Through its PestPatrol research, CA found that Kazaa posed a greater threat than other programs in its top five spyware list because of its widespread popularity. Kazaa claims that its software has been downloaded 214 million times.

    CA gave Kazaa a high "clot factor," its measure of how much a program slows a machine by adding unnecessary registry entries and directories. However, classifying a popular application like Kazaa as spyware is a delicate matter, and CA admits this creates difficulties in attaching labels.

    More information at Cnet


     
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