| Are you experiencing
these types of Virus or Spyware related computer problems?
- Has
your computer slowed down to a crawl?
- Does
it simply shutdown unexpectedly? Aka the computer crashs!
- Or
have you ever experienced the dreaded BSOD (Blue screen of Death)?
Spyware
is a generic term typically describing software whose purpose
is to collect demographic and usage information from your computer,
usually for advertising purposes. The term is also used
to describe software that 'sneaks' onto the system or performs
other activities hidden to the user. Spyware apps are usually bundled
as a hidden component in mis-labeled "freeware" and shareware
applications1 downloaded from the Internet--a spyware module may
be active on your computer at this moment without
your knowledge. These modules are almost always installed on the
system secretively, suggesting that spyware companies know how users
feel about such software and figure that the best/only way to ensure
its widespread use is to prevent the end-user from discovering it.
Spyware
modules have been implicated in computer problems including system
slowdown, Illegal Operation errors, browser crashes,
and even the "Blue Screen Of Death". While normal system
stability has usually returned when the interfering spyware modules
were deleted, one spyware product in particular
will disable your Internet access if you try to delete it!
Many
adware apps install separate advertising components on your system,
that run--downloading ads and wasting system resources--even if
you're not using the software that installed them. Often, these
components remain installed and continue to perform their unsightly
duties even after the associated app has been uninstalled! Some
adware companies have even gone so far as to create "Advertising
Trojan Horses", virus-like software programs that stealthily
install themselves on your computer to perform unwanted advertising
functions and violate your privacy whether you've installed the
advertising-supported software or not. Advertising trojans make
clandestine connections to adservers behind your back, consume precious
network bandwidth and may compromise the security of your data.
The latest versions of these "ad-viruses" operate in full
stealth and are nearly impossible to detect without advanced
knowledge of the system environment. These include the TimeSink/Conducent
TSADBOT and the Aureate advertising
trojans. One spyware module has been known to spoof
a Windows system process so that it cannot be terminated and does
not appear on Windows' End Task (Ctrl-Alt-Del) dialogue.
Deciding
whom to trust with spyware and virus cleanup is very important because
some spyware infestations are not easily cleaned out. Using the
more popular utilities advertised on the web is often inadequate.
The deeper cleaning methods often require manual registry manipulation,
which is not a job for the average computer owner.
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