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The anti-spyware market that never existed is dead
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After 08+million+in+VC+funding/2100-1009_22-5564320.html">raising a mind-boggling $108 millionin venture capital funding to position Spy Sweeper as the ultimateanti-spyware product, Webroot has officially change the name of itsflagship product to downplay the anti-spyware component under the guiseof “providing a complete anti-malware solution.”
Instead of Webroot Spy Sweeper with AntiVirus, the product is nowcalled Webroot AntiVirus with AntiSpyware & Firewall. Under an existing arrangement, Sophos is providing the anti-virus capabilities.
[ SEE: Symantec puts price tag on anti-botnet tool ]
This is the ultimate confirmation, in my mind, that the fakeanti-spyware market (that never really existed) is now dead. I neverquite understood the difference between a spyware threat and a virusthreat. For the most part, this was a definitions game played toperfection by both sides — the noxious adware vendors who wanted to beviewed as legitimate; and the slick anti-malware vendors who were onlytoo happy to play along to sell a brand new product.
Earlier this year, I tested standalone anti-spyware applicationsfor a PC World feature and found it truly amazing that consumers werefalling for the hustle of paying several times to get full anti-malwareprotection.
Typically, desktop security vendors sell an anti-spyware tool andcharge an extra $10 to add signatures for virus protection. Thenthere’s Symantec, a company that has slapped a price tag on an anti-botnet utility.
In my mind, they’re all the same — bots, Trojans, spyware, viruses —and computer users shouldn’t be paying extra because security companiesget to play the definitions game.

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