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NEW YORK A leading spyware-removal firm reported the amount of adware programs it found on consumer computers dropped in the first quarter.
According to Webroot, a Boulder, Colo.-based maker of spyware-removal software, it found adware on 64 percent of computers it scanned in the first quarter, down from 73 percent in the fourth quarter of 2004. The average computer with adware had 6.9 copies of it, constant with the previous quarter.
The firm attributed the lower adware figures to consumer awareness of advertising software that often come bundled with free software, such as file-sharing programs.
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