When discussing and evaluating anti-spyware products, the most immediate difficulty is that there is little agreed definition of spyware, and little agreement as to whether a given sample is or is not spyware. Compared with the firmly established classifications in fields such as macro and boot sector viruses, this does tend to make the work very difficult. How can detection be measured if the items to be detected cannot be agreed? Groups such as the Anti-Spyware Coalition (ASC) are now attempting to define the various spyware classifications, looking not just at how the malware in question works but also at the methods used to analyze it.
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