# 58 Malware Problems Today **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 8, 2012, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/58-malware-problems-today/624538 "2012-06-08T19:31:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/58-malware-problems-today/624538/1 "2012-06-08T19:31:09Z")
And more if I don’t run Spybot daily. Is this normal y’all, or do I have a problem I am unaware of? Thanks Q ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/58-malware-problems-today/624538/2 "2012-06-08T19:40:11Z")
Spybot detects a lot of things like Google’s adsense cookies – in other words, really harmless stuff that’s technically spyware that you get by just being on the internet for half a second. 58 bits of spyware sounds perhaps a TINY bit high, but not incredibly so. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/58-malware-problems-today/624538/3 "2012-06-08T20:08:00Z")
Is it Spybot that’s reporting this 58, or something else? ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/58-malware-problems-today/624538/4 "2012-06-08T20:12:50Z")
Sorry! My bad. It’s Advanced System Care. Quasi