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Computer security companies gang up on spyware

by Jordan Running on February 2, 2006 at 03:05 PM

BBC News is reporting that five computer security firms, ICSA Labs, McAfee, Symantec, Thompson Cyber Security Labs, and Trend Micro, are joining forces to combat spyware. The partnership, which has yet to be given a snappy name, will be collaborating to create a common naming system for spyware and cooperating to create tools to stop spyware. The companies, which say the amount of spyware in circulation increases by 50-100% every year, hope to "remove some of the current confusion caused by anti-spyware firms managing their own labelling and removal method."

Tags: badware, malware, partnership, spyware

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