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Article:	Computer users should be wary of Spyware tracking Editor's note: This is the first in a three-part series teaching computer users how to stay on guard as hackers find new ways to enter "through the back door." The series will deal with some of the most recent ways hackers have found to get into home computers, and ways programmers and legislators have discovered to keep them out. By Barb Kromphardt BCR Staff BUREAU COUNTY -- If the word "Spyware" makes you think of the CIA or the latest Tom Clancy novel, think again. Spyware is as close as your home computer. Spyware first began appearing about a year and a half ago. "Now we see a lot of Spyware hits," said Le Roy Groff, office manager of Zearing Computer Tech in Princeton. "One computer had more than 800. It wasn't as common at first." In
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