When Thomas Breslin bought a new Windows XP computer for home use earlier this year, it came with free trial use of McAfee's hot-selling VirusScan software. Breslin assumed it was safe for him to get on the Internet.
He was wrong. At the time, VirusScan did not block spyware, sneaky programs plaguing Windows PCs. Within a few days, hordes of spyware programs implanted themselves on Breslin's computer, bogging it down to where it was unusable.
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