What is spyware?

Spyware concerns programs that use Internet connection to send information from a personal computer to another computer, usually without your knowledge or permission. This information is most often a record of your ongoing browsing, downloading, downloading or more personal data such as your name and address.

different spyware trunks perform different functions. Some could also bear your browser to bring you to an unexpected site, make your computer dial an expensive 900 numbers, replace the homepage settings in the browser with another site, or give you personal ads even when you are offline. The form that serves personalized ads is also called adware known as malware or scumware.

Some programs that included spyware, such as Realplayer, publish this information in their conditions when Realplayer is installed, although most users do not read the software installation conditions, especially if it is free. Kazaa, program withParting files free of charge, it also includes and there are many others. In fact, most are installed secretly. You can visit a site that discovers a window informing that the site will not be displayed correctly if you do not allow it to install a file or plug-in. The answer yes to a challenge you do not understand can allow you to load spyware. You can also agree to load a program that is not known to you, has a spyware code included.

Interest in spyware, whether its presence is published or not, and the reason why it is so generally perverted is that the user cannot verify or monitor what is actually gathering and sends from their computer. There is no built -in mechanism for users to supervise the process and no checks and balance, legally or otherwise, or confirm how the information is used. Spyware is practically unregulated. Add to this unfavorable SK scenarioFunctioning to use personal resources: your bandwidth, strength processing and memory to perform work for the external entity at the expense of your privacy. However, some programs that include this are still very popular.

It is estimated that 90% of all computers on the Internet are infected with spyware.

Some symptoms of infection are:

• Your computer slows down to browse through several such programs using your memory resources.
• ads appear even when you are offline.
• Click on the link to go to one site, but your browser can carry and end on another site.
• Your computer dials the numbers separately that appears on your account for your phone.
• When you enter a search item, a new and unexpected site processes search.
• Your bookmarks are changing themselves.
• Click Home, but will take you to a new site and when you switch the settings back, the new site will reappear.
• you get VyskakovaThe ads that call you on behalf of you even if you have not visited the site you have registered.

Some anti-spyware programs will search your computer for existing software and alert you to what it will find. You can quarantine suspicious mistakes so they can no longer work. It is very important to read the manual because the removal of spyware can lead to problems with the system or software if this is happening incorrectly.

After starting the software to quarantine or removing the spyware, make sure you are using the software to prevent new programs from being installed.

These programs do not load into memory or run in the background. They rely on the internal databases of known spyware keys they use to scan and protect your system. Therefore, like a viral program, their databases must be updated regularly.