Do
you consider yourself a smart Web Surfer or downloader? Do you consider
yourself immune to threat from spywares, known for tracking and
monitoring you silently. Then I must say you are not. To support this,
let me figure out some points :
1. Most
commonly they are installed on our system as a hidden program, behind
something legitimate which you had given permission. They may be in form
of installation programs, or drive by downloads, i.e. asking you for a
plugin in order to view a page.
2. Unlike
other programs, these spywares always work in stealth mode so that you
can never got to know about the program. You would not even see them in
task manager, in add/remove programs, etc.
3. Popups, unwanted websites, unknown errors, slower pc, are very clear indication of spywares.
Guess
why someone would create adware or spywares? A simple thought, they can
send you unwanted ads for which they can be paid by the companies thy
advertise for, or they can report your name, email address, and other
information to a survey company.
Now
lets talk about the removal of adware. The methodology which most of
the adware/spyware removal tools use is similar to antiviruses. They
also maintain a library of spyware filenames and registry keys and then
searching and removing them from systems.
However
the first thing I would suggest you to install is a firewall so that no
one can get access to your system. This would even work in the case
when your system is already infected. In fact most of the
operating systems nowadays comes with default firewalls within them.
Some other firewalls that may of your interest are :
a. Zone Alarm [http://www.zonealarm.com]
b. Sygate Personal Pro [http://www.tucows.com/thankyou.html?swid=213160]
c. Kerio Personal Firewall
d. AVG Internet Security Firewall [http://www.avg.com/us-en/home-small-office-security]
But
again I would say that getting a good firewall do not ends the story.
Its just a part of solution. Besides frewalls, you must also use one or
more anti-spywares to check your system for current infections. As an
add-on safety, I would recommend you o use spyware removal tools to make
your system more infection free. These all are useful for this task:
a. Spybot [http://spybot-virus-scan.com]
b. Webroot Spy Sweeper [http://webroot.com/wb/products/spysweeper]
c. Spyware Doctor [http://pctools.com/spyware-doctor]
d. Bazooka [http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner]
e. Hijack This [http://spychecker.com/program/hijackthis.html] [Advanced Users]
Some
of them can even deal with the things in which antiviruses do not takes
interest. These things include adware, Trojans, key loggers, track
wares, etc. Along with scanning part, they would tell you hw to
uninstall them these potentially unwanted apps, and that’s too with step
by step instructions.
Apart from your expertise in web surfing, if you go ahead with these things, it will simply make you immune to spyware and ad wares.
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