More than 60 percent of consumers' personal computers - and 50 percent of corporate computershad adware programs in the first quarter of 2005, according to a new report by Webroot Software, a vendor
of anti-spyware/adware software. Machines with adware had an average of seven separate pieces of adware, according to the report, which found that adware is the most prevalent type of unwanted
software on computers today. -- W.D.
