The Mafia & SpywareWritten by dDawg
The Mafia & SpywareThe deluge of spyware festering on consumer and corporate PCs will help to spark a boom in spending on security Latest News about Security software, a new report from Framingham, Massachusetts-based IDC predicts. Anti-spyware software revenues will rise from US$12 million in 2003 to $305 million in 2008, with traditional antivirus software vendors, such as Norton and McAfee, competing with dedicated anti-spyware companies for leadership of market, according to study. Spyware, also known as adware or malware, is infecting millions of computers with multiple purposes: stealing personal information, enabling identity theft, tracking users' online activity, and selling information back to anyone willing to pay. IDC estimates that 67 percent of all computers -- mostly consumer PCs -- have some form of spyware. At moment, key players in spyware detection market include specialist vendors, such as Webroot and Computer Associates-owned PestPatrol. However, IDC report argues that anti-spyware will increasingly become part of antivirus vendors' offerings. "Currently, some antivirus software vendors are more focused on spyware than others," said IDC analyst Brian Burke. "For example, Norton has not been as focused on spyware as its rivals, such as McAfee, but it is rapidly catching up and will be bringing out a product. Spyware is very different from viruses, he noted, and is much more difficult to eliminate because it establishes itself in a computer's registry. And different anti-spyware programs will not all find same spyware when they do a scan of a computer hard drive.
| | Professional Convention Managers Association updates its gomembers’ Association Management Software solutionWritten by gomembers, Inc.
[Herndon, VA] --- gomembers, Inc. (http://www.gomembers.com) is pleased to announce that Professional Convention Managers Association (PCMA: http://www.pcma.org/) has elected to update their association+® software solution to gomembers’ most recent release, 7.3. “PCMA is dedicated to serving meeting planning industry and we are pleased that they have made decision to upgrade,” commented Jay Barrett, Vice President of Operations for gomembers. “The update will not only enhance their technology and productivity, but also financially secures their investment, as it strategically positions them to keep pace with progressive technologies.” For more information on gomembers' solutions, please visit Products section of our website: www.gomembers.com For any questions, please do not hesitate to contact gomembers via email at: gomembers-inc@gomembers.com gomembers, Inc. gomembers is a leading provider of software solutions for membership, meetings and management of member-based organizations. gomembers' software and technology enable its customers to automate a number of enterprise resource planning, member relationship management, transaction processing and member-to-member communications functions in a single software platform with seamless inter-processing of data across all applications.
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