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• Detecting Spyware
  Is someone watching you online, spying on everything you type, watching where you go on the internet.
  
  
  • Detection
    Today spyware and adware attracts us at nearly every turn of the internet highway. This comes in the form of reputedly free programs that will "help you" in one way or another. Sadly, these forms of software are more pernicious than helpful.
    
    
  • How spyware infects your PC
    It sounds like something you might expect too find in a Hollywood movie, some fancy gadget that can see around corners and listen to people in other countries. Unfortunately is an infection that can be caught by that PC in front of you. So how do you actually catch it.
    
    
  • Effects of Spyware
    A piece of spyware rarely "lives" alone: an affected computer can rapidly become infected with large numbers of spyware components. Users frequently notice unwanted behavior and degradation of system performance.
    
    
  • Spyware And Adware
    By now the term Spyware has slipped through nearly everyone's ears at least once or twice. Yet another term that is beginning to surface is Adware. These terms, while often used interchangeably, are indeed different on the whole.
    
    
  • Blocker
    By now anyone who has a computer or knows someone who does, has heard about spyware. Spyware is similar to the notorious computer viruses and worms in that it potentially can harm a person's information stored on a hard drive.
    
    
  • Cookies
    Many people today have heard about spyware and how it does everything from tracking web surfing habits and producing an inordinate amount of pop up advertisements to actually stealing vital personal information without a computer user's awareness.
    
    
  • Downloads
    Computers are wonderful, and the further invention of the World Wide Web goes with home computers like peanut butter and jelly: the two are sheer perfection together. Yet sadly enough, there are many people in the world who would utilize the internet to harm your computer for kicks, or they would steal information from you. These two actions are effected by spyware downloads.
    
    
  • Help
    Sadly enough, not only is spyware just downright mean spirited, but it often equates to theft. The makers of this horrible software will do anything that they can to steal your information and, subsequently, take your money from your bank account, money market fund, or any other way that they see feasible.
    
    
  • Protection
    Let's face it: if you have a computer -no matter the type, make, or how much it cost, no matter the operating system or if it was recommended by your best friend, whatever computer you have, if it is hooked up to the internet, you absolutely must have spyware protection.
    
    
  • Registry
    As spyware and other forms of malware begin to increase in number of attacks on computer users across the world, some basic anti-spyware programs should be installed in computers from San Diego to Timbuktu.
    
    
  • Software
    Spyware is everywhere, it seems. It slows your computer, gives you unwanted pop ups, and if that weren't enough, it even redirects you to websites that you never typed in. And these are the problems of a lesser degree. More malicious spyware software can destroy all of the information on your hard drive.
    
    
  • Program
    There are many symptoms to it. A slowing of your computer, a vast number of pop ups and the inability to go to the website that you type in without being sidetracked to another website, often the same site over and over again. These are all symptoms of spyware infection.
    
    
• Spyware removal tools
  There is a lot a software available on the internet, here are a couple that I've found useful.