Wednesday, January 21, 2009
What Is Spyware ? How Do You Know Your Computer Is Infected By Spyware?
It is true in this modern world, internet is reputably the king of informations in our daily life. It is the most convenient, fastest and popular way for everyone to surf for informations, buy products online, go to chatroom, download music and video software etc. However, it is also true that everytime you are actively connected to internet, while unknowingly and happily surfing the internet you are technically expose and in danger of spyware infection to certain extent. So it is not surprising if someone close to you has told you before how annoying it is that his or her PC has gone haywire because of spyware infection. In some worse cases it is even more painful to find out all your informations and important data are gone forever and there is no way you are gonna able to revive it. And yet you still need to burn your pocket to spend few hundred bucks to repair it. So What Actually Is Spyware And How Can Your PC Get Infected? Spyware is a software program that is usually sent to your computer packaged with other programs and has the capability to secretly install on your computer. In general term, spyware is a malicious and intelligent hidden program that is able to collect and extract information from your PC activities once you are actively connected to the internet. It's ability to hide and function silently without your knowledge awaiting opportunity to invade your PC. Once it find its way into your PC it is able to monitor, collect, extract and steal informations from your computer system right under your noses. It is also rather despicable as it able to alter and make changes to your PC functioning system causing your PC to behave abnormally and malfunction. Spyware has even become the foremost rated dangerous program even surplusing other viruses because it cause massive damage to you and your PC system. Most coommonly, they hide in freely download-able programs such as games, videos, web-toolbars, or browser enhancements etc so by downloading the these "infected" program you are inviting and opening the gate for spyware program to enter your PC too. *What Are The Possible Sypmtoms Or Tell Tale Signs Of Spyware Infection On Your PC? Very likely, your PC are infected with spyware software program on your computer if its behaviour is similar to one of them as listed below. 1)Frequent Excessive Unwanted Pop-Up Advertisements You Never Click For While searching or browsing through the internet website, pop-up ads kept ballooning out of nowhere on your PC Monitor. Your PC monitor is inundated with pop-ups ads and you have a hard time trying to close them down. If your Computer is bombarded frequently with these stubborn pop-up ads and they just won't go away, your PC is defintely infected with spyware. Do not try to click on these pop-ups as you may create more unnecessary troubles by inviting or triggering more spyware to invade your computer. So long as the infection by spyware is not gotten rid off, never ever click on the pop-up ads
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