{"id":535,"date":"2005-04-01T00:50:55","date_gmt":"2005-04-01T05:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/04\/01\/top-spyware-worth-300-million-annually\/"},"modified":"2005-04-01T00:50:55","modified_gmt":"2005-04-01T05:50:55","slug":"top-spyware-worth-300-million-annually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/04\/01\/top-spyware-worth-300-million-annually\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Spyware Worth $300 Million Annually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo News has a story about the <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=74&#038;e=3&#038;u=\/cmp\/20050331\/tc_cmp\/159908570\">top ten spyware threats<\/a>, as compiled by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webroot.com\/\">Webroot Software, Inc.<\/a>, a developer of anti-spyware tools.  <\/p>\n<p>The stop spot goes to CoolWebSearch, a particularly nasty program dubbed the &#8220;Ebola of the Internet&#8221; by Webroot vice-president Richard Stiennon.  According to the studies done by the company, one out of every two PCs scanned by their software test positive for the presence of CoolWebSearch.<\/p>\n<p>Probably the most sobering aspect of the story is just how much profit there is in spyware.  CoolWebSearch reportedly made 300 million dollars last year for it&#8217;s developers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo News has a story about the top ten spyware threats, as compiled by Webroot Software, Inc., a developer of anti-spyware tools. The stop spot goes to CoolWebSearch, a particularly nasty program dubbed the &#8220;Ebola of the Internet&#8221; by Webroot vice-president Richard Stiennon. According to the studies done by the company, one out of every &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/04\/01\/top-spyware-worth-300-million-annually\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Top Spyware Worth $300 Million Annually&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}