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What Are Adware & Spyware And Are You Infected?

When you are infected with a computer virus it is easy to diagnose because your computer severely malfunctions or crashes altogether, but with spyware and adware it is not as easy to discover.
Here are a few of the more common things to look for to see if adware or spyware is running on your PC.
 
  • Your continuously getting frustrating pop-up windows from sites you dont know or sites trying to sell you something.
     
  • Your homepage continually changes from the site you set it to.
    If so your browser has been hijacked by adware.
     
  • Your computer has become very slow when loading and it gets worse each start up.
     
  • You notice strange software loading when booting or starting your computer.
     
  • Your Internet browser hangs up or fails to load when trying to access the internet.
     
  • Your frequently receiving error messages and registry errors when booting your computer.
     
So what is Adware and Spyware you ask.
Spyware is a phrase used to describe a computer software program that is installed and executed without the user's knowledge or permission.
Once a computer is infected, the program executes activities like altering the configuration of the computer, collecting and sending very sensitive personal information, tracking user's internet browsing habits without getting the user's permission.
It is generally associated with software that displays advertisements in popups and is also called adware.
  Although some adware and spyware is considered harmless and considered basic online marketing practices, it should be the right of the user to decide who can track their personal and confidential information.
It is scary to think it can be stolen from your personal computer by a malicious spyware or adware application.
Currently there are countless numbers of variants of adware and spyware waiting to attack your PC.
They are searching the internet constantly looking for unprotected computers to attack and send the information to it's home base for analysis and exploiting.
When they find a place to hide on your computer, they immediately start doing all kinds of malicious actions to your computer.
These malicious actions start attacking you with pop-ups, hijacking your browser, installing more adware parasites, or finding and distributing your personal information.
Since there are so many kinds of spyware threats, spyware removal is a complicated process.
We recommend that you use an anti-spyware software product or spyware cleaner (plenty of free versions are available for downloading).
An anti spyware software basically carries a database of all-known threats, so that a system scan will detect all traces and take the optimum steps to remove them.
Free applications are plentiful and they will do a great job of keeping your system clean, if the internal database is kept up to date.
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