Companies may get more than they bargained for with freeware and shareware, warns Websense Inc.; Freeware and shareware sites on the web jump more than 300 percent in 2001.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-22 February 2002-Websense: Companies may get more than they bargained for with freeware and shareware, warns Websense Inc.; Freeware and shareware sites on the web jump more than 300 percent in 2001 (C)1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:22022002 LONDON -- People get what they pay for - and in the case of employees downloading freeware applications - sometimes more than they want.

Websense Inc. (NASDAQ: WBSN), the world's leading employee Internet management (EIM) software company, reports that the number of freeware and shareware sites on the Web has spiked 315 percent in the past year to more than 4,300 Web sites, representing nearly 1.3 million Web pages. Freeware sites distribute free software downloads, while shareware sites...