A faulty update to anti-virus software released over the weekend by Tokyo-based Trend Micro caused PCs to slow down or stop working around the world, the company said Monday.
Security vendors are having increasing difficulty defining and identifying spyware, and their indecision is slowing efforts to assist frustrated IT managers tasked with keeping employees' PCs clean.
The anti-spyware vendor calls the Web-crawling technology a "mini Google" for spyware and says it will enable researchers to identify new outbreaks more quickly.