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Spyware. Bad.

Published April 23, 2004

We’ve all seen that dialog box that pops up after Windows crashes, offering to send the details to Microsoft. Well, according to this press release (and my personal experience), Microsoft really does keep track of this information.

The totals tell a depressing story: “…deceptive software causes more than 50 percent of Windows operating systems failures reported to Microsoft.”

Amazing.

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