Why would you want to remove spyware from your computer? Well there are a whole load of reasons as to why you could, but I am going to tell you why you should remove spyware.

You buy a new computer to upgrade, to get a faster processor or just a faster computer, a computer that probably cost you a lot of your hard earned money. Now let’s say it starts to slow down. A lot. What could do this? Spyware will do this. If this isn’t enough to make you go download or run your anti spyware application then I don’t know what will. Read the rest of this entry »

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 »

Spyware is generally known as something really terrible. Whenever someone mentions it, you shudder, hoping that your computer isn’t infected with the illusive spyware everyone always talks about. Spyware is usually something that advertises ads on your computer; generally the ads come up randomly and frequently.

Spyware can also be in the form of information collecting. This means that when the spyware is planted into your computer, it collects information about your surfing habits, the programs you use, even what you type. It can be scary thinking that something could be in your computer, recording all of this and sending it to someone you don’t even know.

Companies that make spyware usually don’t care about anyone else other than themselves. They use the spyware to exploit advertising networks. There are many advertising networks that pay people to show their ads, a spyware engineer could make a certain spyware to show that networks ads, generating quite a lot of money. Read the rest of this entry »