WASHINGTON - Two bills focusing on spyware overwhelmingly passed the U.S. House of Representatives late Monday, including one that requires many software programs collecting personal information to get permission before doing so.
The U.S. House of Representatives votes to establish new penalties for purveyors of Internet "spyware" that disables users' computers and secretly monitors their activities.
The bogus e-mail contains an attachment that purports to be a cumulative Windows patch for May 2005. It's actually an executable file for a well-known virus.