Yahoo Plans Antispyware Service
Yahoo Inc. plans to announce today the availability of a new antispyware service through its toolbar software.
The new service will allow registered Yahoo users to scan for spyware, small programs that install themselves on computers to serve up advertising, monitor Web surfing and other computer activities, and carry out other orders. The Yahoo users can then have the service, which will initially be available in a testing phase, remove the spyware from their computers. They need to have installed Yahoo's free toolbar software, which works with a web browser and allows users quickly to access other services such as Web search.
Antispyware software "is the number one thing we're hearing from our users in terms of the security tools and services they wanted to see delivered from Yahoo," said Julie Herendeen, vice president for network products at Yahoo, Sunnyvale, Calif.
Antispyware software is already available from a number of sources, including some Internet service providers and vendors of antivirus software. But consumer frustration with the unwanted programs continues to grow -- spyware is quickly replacing spam as the online annoyance computer users most complain about.
Yahoo's new service uses technology from PestPatrol Inc., a closely held Carlisle, Penn. maker of antispyware software.
雅虎将提供新的反间谍软件服务
雅虎公司(Yahoo! Inc., YHOO)计划于周四宣布在工具条软件上推出新的反间谍软件服务。
这项新服务使雅虎的注册用户可以扫描间谍软件，这种间谍软件自行安装在用户的电脑上，以发布广告、监视网络浏览情况以及电脑上的其他活动，还可以执行其他的指令。雅虎的注册用户可以使用这项服务将这些间谍软件从电脑中删除。初期这项服务将推出试用版。需要使用这项服务的用户必须首先安装雅虎的免费工具条软件，该软件与一个互联网浏览器协同工作，使用户可以快速使用各种服务。
雅虎网络产品部门副总裁Julie Herendeen称，在安全工具和服务方面，他们的用户希望雅虎提供的首要产品就是反间谍软件。
