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Spyware is public enemy number one. Web advertising networks are strongly lobbying to make sure that the anti-Spyware bill known as the Spy Act is watered down a bit before passage (Bill H.R. 29). The FBI has arrested a 20-year-old man after he created a botnet of more than 400,000 infected machines, installing adware on them and making $60,000. As a side business the man was also alleged to have sold access to the botnet to spammers. Security experts have warned of a fast spreading adware file designed to tempt unwitting recipients with the promise of free music and videos. Implementing a strategy early is the key to protecting your network from spyware and adware, says Kirk Drake New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer on Thursday filed suit against an internet marketing firm, alleging that it secretly installed spyware and adware on consumers' computers. Congress has agreed to push home tough new measures to fight spyware and adware. A subsidiary of America Online has settled Federal Trade Commission charges that it illegally bundled adware with free security software. Symantec has filed suit against Hotbar.com in the hopes of winning a court ruling supporting its right to detect certain Hotbar programs as adware.