se interfacing with a network, waste lots of their
expensive time to fix; IT managers average $76,000 per year, lots of dough
to dispense with for free' programs. (Business Wire, 2002)
The problem is that most freeware and shareware downloads are
accompanied by add banners (adware) or spyware, or worse, viruses and
Trojan horses. Two popular file-sharing downloads common to offices where
surfing was conducted, Limeware and Grokster (Business Wire, 2002), were
found carrying Trojan horse software that took over parts of users'
computers sight unseen to carry on its own tasks. Naturally, software has
been created to prevent access to sites offering freeware and shareware to
protect corporations from the viruses and Trojan horses. (Business Wire,
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