U. Michigan Computers Recovering From Spyware

Computers at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor were hit hard by Marketscore, a piece of spyware that can retrieve users’ personal information, but campus officials say they’re getting the problem under control. Administrators will block about 500 infected machines from the Internet and redirect them to a Web site that helps their owners delete the offending software. For more on Marketscore, see Vincent Kiernan’s recent article.