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The vast majority of people are blind to spyware, adware and other unwanted software according to a survey sponsored by security software firm, McAfee.

Alarmingly, in a survey of more than 14,000 Internet users, 97 per cent of them were found to be ‘one click away’ from infecting their PCs with unwanted or malicious software.

Only three per cent of those that took the Siteadvisor spyware quiz received perfect scores.

The vast majority of people are blind to spyware, adware and other unwanted software according to a survey sponsored by security software firm, McAfee.

Alarmingly, in a survey of more than 14,000 Internet users, 97 per cent of them were found to be ‘one click away’ from infecting their PCs with unwanted or malicious software.

Only three per cent of those that took the Siteadvisor spyware quiz received perfect scores. The survey challenged web surfers to test their ability to detect which sites in a number of popular categories were free of adware or spyware. People are blind to Spyware - Computeract!ve

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