Here we are today - several years after Spyware’s nasty head poked through the security landscape in full force - and asking ourselves: What, if anything, has changed? Has the proliferation of the various types of PUPs (potentially unwanted programs) slowed down? Has the nastiness of spyware and it’s relatives diminished? I say, that landscape has simply changed. The gray areas have gotten grayer, and at the same time, the divide between the good and bad has broadened. The adware vendors have cleaned up just enough to appear truly benign, whereas the number of rootkits has flourished. There are many ways to sidestep legitimate detection, and the PUP vendors are becoming more and more deft at this on a number of different areas. If you’d like to explore more on this topic, please see our recently released whitepaper discussing the morphing campaign of Spyware…..