No matter where you are or how big you are, if your organization hasn't been affected by spyware yet, it's only a matter of time. That's the message from Boulder, Colo.-based Webroot Software Inc. According to the antispyware vendor's quarterly "State of Spyware" report released this week, the spread of secret nefarious and malicious programs has quickly become a "global pandemic." Webroot CEO C. David Moll said spyware is no longer confined to a handful countries or a single continent. In fact, it's everywhere. Moll said his customers have reported spyware problems in 223 countries. What's more, unlike spam, which he said took nearly two years to plague users around the world, spyware has become the scourge of Internet users everywhere in just a matter of months. Read the entire article here, http://www.crime-research.org/news/18.11.2005/1640/