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Everyday more
and more computers are becoming infected with Spyware
and Adware (advertising tracking). No matter
where you go on the web, someone is trying to sneak something
on your computer. From honest web sites placing simple logon cookies,
to paid advertising tracking your movements on the web, to malicious
software that is designed to record your keystrokes and discover
your passwords, Spyware and Adware have together become the web’s
number one problem.
Many of these programs are down right dangerous and seriously
threaten your online privacy and identity. But even the simple
and supposedly benign Adware programs can cause you serious problems.
Spyware is any program that installs itself onto your computer
with the intent to spy on your activity. This can be recording
your online searching habits, or whatever you type on your keyboard.
Adware is not much better. It is designed to watch what you do
online, where you go, which terms you search for and then report
this to the ad agency that runs the adware program.
Adware programs may be designed with the
best intentions in mind, but even these can cause your computer
serious problems.
Here is what happens. Many, if not most, advertisers on the internet
will try and place a cookie or other small program on your computer.
Many will add code that will track that cookie as it hits different
pages. The code may be designed simply to gather anonymous data,
or it may be trying to send ads to your browser that the advertising
company thinks you will be more likely to respond to.
Whatever the case, the Adware or Spyware is using your computer
to do its tracking. This means that part of your computer’s power
and CPU cycles are being diverted away from the activity you are
trying to perform. Your computer is being used by someone else
instead to track your movements. Now, when we multiply this behavior
by tens or hundreds of Adware or Spyware programs all trying to
use your computer for their work you can begin to see the problem.
These programs can literally slow your computer down to a crawl,
or make it crash altogether. They can fill your computer up with
trash files, open unwanted popup windows, use up the space in
your internet cache and generally just make working on your computer
a nightmare.
Luckily there are several easy solutions to the problem. But first
let me make one distinction, Spyware and Adware are not the same
thing as a computer virus. Although a computer virus can install
spyware on a computer, you will need different tools to remove
a computer virus and to keep your system clean from Spyware and
Adware. You should be using both a high quality commercial anti-virus
program and one or more good quality programs for handling the
spyware/adware problem.
There are several good Spyware/adware programs on the et. I use
two different programs on my network, ErrorSmart
is my #1 pick. It Repairs your registry and increase in PC performance
by up to 70 percent.
* Defragmentation and compression of your registry with the click
of a mouse.
* The option of removing
registry errors manually or automatically.
* The security of registry back-up utilities.
* Easy removal of invalid program shortcuts, duplicate files and
invalid help files.
* Easy organization of startup programs.
* Resolution of Windows installer errors.
* Repair
of DLL files.
* Repair of Internet Explorer Errors
* Removal of Windows startup errors and runtime errors.
* Stabilization of scripting errors.
* Prevention of PC crashing and system freezes.
You can easily find both of these by doing an internet search
for Ad-aware and Spy Sweeper. Or simply do a search for spyware.
Both of these programs will scan your hard drives and registry
and present you with a list of spyware/adware programs hiding
on your system. You can then quarantine or remove the offending
programs. I use both of these programs since neither one seems
to catch everything. Plus I will run them 2 or more es in a row,
the nastier spyware will not be completely removed on the first
pass.
The process is very easy and I recommend running these programs
at least once a week and every e you have been doing some extended
web surfing. You will be surprised at how many of these spyware/adware
programs will sneak onto your system. I run a very clean network
and I have yet to scan my system and not come up with at least
a few of these hiding on my hard drive.
So be aware of the problem, take reasonable precautions, scan
your system frequently, and the spyware/adware
curse can be broken.
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