Moel's Blog: Spyware Everywhere

As immensely enjoyable as it is to be online the price we pay has gone up, way up, for that pleasure. For the ease of information, instant gratification, for the all knowing personal shopper, researcher, translator and match maker, we figured the transmission of our email address or ip address was a small token to pay. But the small token has grown bigger. And it is a bit scary to me. The current name of that scary is Spyware! Recently I started having major problems with my computer. I would be online doing the usual things like checking email or reading the news, then links I click on would take a long time to load. Eventually my computer screen would get the slow and choppy disease. You know: the blue loading line is barely moving in the address bar, the page is totally white because it is in between links and the mouse isn’t moving and you pray it doesn’t crash. Then it just crashes. I would go through that cycle 10 times a day. I ran my disk repair program but it wasn’t a hardware problem. Then I realized that in the midst of all that transmitting and downloading, my computer may have been compromised by spyware. I thought about what was being done to my computer, what information had been compromised. I felt that something was sucking the life off my hard drive, had copied all my files and was monitoring my online movements. I finally found the removal program and ran it on my computer. There were numerous spyware detected and removed from my system and the problems stopped. I learned my lesson. I decided that ‘they’ was really ‘me’. I knew about spyware but didn'’t guard against it even though I was online a lot. I was aware of the risk and ignored it then but not now. I guard my information and I run my spyware detection and remover program frequently. You should too.

Due to its awareness, many people know about the dangers that exist from malicious software. Today alone, 80 percent of people have their computers infected and their information compromised by spyware. Only 5 percent of the 80 percent know they have the dangerous software installed on the their system. This is, without a doubt, troubling numbers. No wonder people are seeking solutions against the spyware by using anti-spyware tools.There are two ways to stop spyware from doing significant harm and damage to your computer: prevention and solution.

Prevention : Remember that the best way to keep spyware out is to keep an anti-spyware installed on your computer. This can be done several ways. Some of the anti-spyware software can scan through every bit of data that enters your computer. It then checks the data against the known spyware database. Due to this database, if a spyware that is on the list tries to invade your computer, it is prevented from doing so. This is only effective so long as the database is kept current. Another way anti-spyware helps to prevent spyware from getting installed is to limit certain program's activities that are known to distribute spyware. One such known program is Active X. What is Active X you ask? It is a technological tool that allows content to get sent from the web to a person's computer. When an anti-spyware software limits the program capabilities, it lessens the chance that any spyware will be installed onto your computer.
Solution : For some reason, if any spyware does exist on your system, the anti-spyware tool will run a scan of your entire hard drive and system and get rid of them. A regular scanning should be done...typically on a daily basis. The program, once it is has found the culprit, will delete it to be sure no traces remain of the program to cause harm to your computer. Typically, most programmers found this way to incorporate the anti-spyware software easier than if preventive measures were taken. Creators of spyware know that certain programs cannot run without the daily operations of the computer. They introduce spyware into these computers, knowing this loophole. For example: Many websites use Flash to make web surfing entertaining. Creators want to use Flash to infect your system with spyware. To keep the system running smoothly on the website, Flash is an integrate part of web entertainment. Yet, users know they cannot uninstall Flash without causing hiccups. Here, anti-spyware companies are faced with big odds to get rid of spyware but keep the person's computer running smoothly and without major issues. Alternatives to Anti-Spyware Software while these next spyware anti-spyware solutions are not always viable, they can rather prove impractical. First off, a person can limit their computer from contacting others by limiting their time on the Internet. This may not work because people have become very dependent on the Internet for many of his needs. Try to rid the Spyware yourself. In doing this, it could cause irreparable harm and is not a wise idea. Never mess with spyware on your own. Using an anti-spyware against spyware is the ideal thing you can do to decipher your computer problems.

There are many free spyware erasers available on the internet, to get them easily, just go online and search for them in any of the search egines. Once this is done a list of all the anti-spyware companies that offer free spyware removing software programs will appear and you can choose the one that suits you most. We have the Spybot Search and Destroy, it is an excellent spyware remover that immediately combats all available spyware in the computer, it will search through the whole system to locate the spyware no matter where it is hiding. Once the spyware is found, the SpyBot software eliminates it at once without any kind of difficulty at all. It is a free Spyware remover. Another one is the Spyware Blaster, this offers a complete protection from all spyware and adware in the computer. It operates by eliminating any existing spyware from the system and blocking the system so that no spyware can gain entrance again. Microsoft also offers a free spyware remover that is very active when it comes to attacking the spyware in the system. It will do the job perfectly, leaving your computer perfectly whole and protected from any futuristic attack. You should know that, when searching for a spyware remover, make sure you pick the one that has firewalls as a protection. The firewall bulids a wall around your computer even when you are browsing, this hinders the spyware from getting into your system again.