NYTimes has a story about computer users who simply purchase new computers to fix their spyware problems. The story cites a Pew study reporting about how many computer users have had problems with spyware, but its evidence for the computer disposal trend is all anecdotal.
The anecdotes are fairly interesting. Two persons interviewed hold PhDs in computer science who tossed their machines after losing performance to spyware. The article doesn't note whether the infected computers were at the end of their lifecycle; perhaps these cases were simply early upgrades. The story also doesn't mention the environmental hazards improper computer disposal presents.
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