CA Wins Deal to Protect 20M AOL Users
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According to eweek.com AOL has released a new version of it’s spyware software, Computers Associates are behind version 2.0.
America Online Inc. on Wednesday announced ASP (AOL Spyware Protection) 2.0, which uses Computer Associates International Inc.’s eTrust PestPatrol Anti-Spyware technology to scan AOL users’ systems for 28,000 different kinds of spyware.
Pest Patrol will allow AOL to scan its customers systems more frequently for spyware?as frequently as once a minute?and give CA a new base of 20 million AOL users, the companies said.
AOL members who use AOL 9.0 and AOL 8.0 and above who downloaded the ASP software will automatically receive the update when they sign in.
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