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Sudhindra Shukla,

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 48, Issue 8

Pages 85 - 90

https://doi.org/10.1145/1076211.1076245

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Spyware poses serious privacy and security issues to users of e-commerce and m-commerce [3, 5, 8]. Microsoft claims that half of all computer crashes reported by its customers were caused by spyware and its equivalents. Spyware is also responsible for about 12% of all technical support calls and accounts for the biggest category of customer complaints, according to Dell [1].

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