With more and more spyware popping up everywhere and in all sorts of forms, the general public has had to battle against it somehow. This is what I call the Anti Spyware Revolution. In this day and age, most homes have a computer. Some homes have more than three computers! Now with all of those computers, it gives the people who create spyware, a large number of computers to infect. If you are oblivious to spyware, you will not be a happy surfer.

Most people have no clue how to spot spyware, or recognize the symptoms. I will go over some symptoms that you might have on your computer when you are infected.

1. Biggest symptom is by far pop up advertisements. You’re trying to finish up your essay or you’re writing the last bit of your business proposal and all of the sudden… Party Poker pops up. Who opened this you might think. Your worst nightmare did, and it’ll do that 200 more times in the next few hours.

2. Slooooww computer. If you notice your computer booting up rather sluggishly, then you probably have some sort of spyware. It could also be you just have a lot of applications starting up at the initial boot up, but it will most likely be the fact that you have spyware. If you are me, it is anti spyware applications loading up. Read the rest of this entry »