Spyware has become such a big problem at Scott & White Hospital that the organization is drawing up plans to drastically restrict its staff's Internet access. "The biggest issue we've got is spyware, the malware that comes down through subversive Web pages," says Steve Raynes,IT audit manager for the Temple, Texas, healthcare company Spyware not only clogs PCs used for patient care but sometimes redirects Web pages to alternate sites. The 7,000-person staff is already banned from accessing gambling and pornography Web sites via filtering software, and Raynes says Scott & White is contemplating adding online shopping to that list to avoid spyware infections. Raynes is "desperate" for anti-spyware software with the kind of reporting, automated updates, group policies, quarantine and remote configuration seen in anti-virus products."I can't find it," he says.
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