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Spyware Why Doesnʹt My Anti‐Virus Software Detect it ?

Why Doesnʹt My Anti‐Virus Software Detect Spyware?

Technically, most unsolicited commercial software isn’t viral: it doesn’t spread from computer to computer, it just installs and runs on one system.

That doesn’t mean it’s not harmful, but anti‐virus software does not attempt to detect all software that could be harmful. Whether it should is a tricky argument that ends up a question of where you draw the line.

Actually some anti‐virus programs do detect some of the parasites, but not nearly all, and not all versions of them.

Parasites that install using IE security holes are more likely to be targeted by the anti‐virus software vendors, but the selection of targets seems for the most part to be pretty arbitrary.