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If you visited Sears.com or Kmart.com and agreed to join their "online community," you may have installed spyware without your knowledge. Late last year, Sears.com and Kmart.com reportedly began asking users if they wanted to participate in a ... "community" online -- presumably a community made up of Sears and Kmart partners. In late December, security researcher Benjamin Googins of Computer Associates noticed that the "community" actually installed software from comScore, a market research firm, in order to track the web activities of the site's visitors. Googins noted on his company' ... (view more)