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26.7 Million Americans to Become Victims of Identity Theft Thanks to Spyware, According to PCImmunity.com
11 October 2005Do you know who's stealing
your identity? Until just a few months ago, the odds were that it was someone
in your family or neighborhood. Today, however, there is someone far more
savvy and distant stealing your identity. There are currently 26.7 million
Americans who are unwittingly transmitting their identity to international
hackers and criminals.
In a recent study conducted by the Alladin Knowledge Systems of the top
2,000 known spyware threats, they found that 15 percent of spyware is actually
stealing all the information typed on an infected computer, by logging the
information the user types and then transmitting it to the spyware's creator.
This method is called "key logging," and was the cause for five percent of the
identity theft cases last year.
There are currently over 223 million Internet users in the United States
(http://www.internetworldstats.com/america.htm). According to the National
Cyber Security Alliance 80 to 90 percent of desktops are infected with
spyware. At 80 percent, that's 187.4 million Internet users affected by
spyware. With 15 percent of those transmitting the information needed for
identity theft, that's 26.7 million people in the U.S. alone transmitting
their identities to international hackers and criminals.
Last year, there were approximately 10 million cases of identity theft in
the U.S., resulting in losses of over $50 billion, of which spyware comprised
only 5 percent ($2.5 billion). The average identity theft case resulted in
$5,000 in damage. If we do not do something to stop the flood of spyware, we
could be looking at over $133 billion in losses this year due to spyware
alone.
There are plenty of products available to fight spyware, many of which are
free, or very inexpensive. To effectively fight spyware you must have an
antivirus program, at least two anti-spyware applications, and a firewall on
your computer. They must be properly installed, updated, and maintained. All
of this gets to be a bit too much for the average computer user who just wants
to use the computer and not have to spend hours each week updating and
maintaining their computer, which is where PCImmunity(TM) comes in.
PCImmunity is the only product on the market that meets the security
recommendations of computer experts. An Internet security suite alone will not
fully protect you from spyware, as it only contains one anti-spyware
application. To date, no one anti-spyware application has been able to detect
and remove 100% of known spyware threats. The best applications available
reach the upper 80 percentile.
Experts recommend using at least two anti-spyware applications, which
results in coverage in the upper 90 percentile. PCImmunity is the only product
available that not only allows, but enforces the two-anti-spyware-application
policy.
Helping users with every aspect of PC security and maintenance is a
feature unique to PCImmunity. It ensures the user has antivirus, anti-spyware,
and firewall applications properly installed; if not, PCImmunity allows users
to select which antivirus, anti-spyware, and firewall applications they would
like from a list of high-quality, trusted applications, and then PCImmunity
downloads, installs, and maintains them. PCImmunity ensures that computers get
as virus-free and spyware-free as possible and stay that way. By conducting
thorough virus and spyware scans daily, PCImmunity saves you hours each day.
On top of security scans, PCImmunity also conducts disk maintenance, to ensure
your computer is running at its best. PCImmunity takes all the learning and
decision-making off the users' hands and does it all without charging an arm
and a leg.
According to http://www.pcimmunity.com, spyware and viruses can be easily
prevented for a low month-to-month cost of just $4.99 with no long-term
contract or hidden costs, just $4.99/month. PCImmunity keeps its users from
being one of the 26.7 million American's who are providing their identities to
international hackers and criminals.
About Computer Assurance, LLC
Founded by Matthew Connor, a ten-year veteran of the Military Intelligence
Corps, and James Clark, MD, an experienced business developer of ten years,
Computer Assurance, LLC is dedicated to making computers spyware-free, virus-
free, and well-maintained without the average computer user needing a degree
in computer science. PCImmunity is the company's flagship product. For more
information on spyware, antispyware, anti-spyware, viruses, antivirus, and
firewalls, visit http://www.pcimmunity.com.
Contact:
Matthew Connor
Computer Assurance, LLC
866-690-8769
matt@pcimmunity.com
http://www.pcimmunity.com
This release was issued through eReleases(TM). For more information,
visit http://www.ereleases.com.
Source: PR Newswire
All trademarks and copyrighted information contained herein are the property of their respective owners.
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