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Microsoft Adds Program to Fight Spyware

By Larry Abramson
Published January 23, 2005 at 9:00 PM PST

Microsoft releases its "Antispyware Beta" as a free download, without saying if consumers will have to pay for it in the future. It works like other free tools available from other providers, scanning computers for software known to have ill inent.

Copyright 2005 NPR

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Larry Abramson
Larry Abramson is NPR's National Security Correspondent. He covers the Pentagon, as well as issues relating to the thousands of vets returning home from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.