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Spyware
Important Update!
Spyware -
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The Federal Trade Commission has started cracking down on anti-spyware
companies that are intentionally deceiving you. Do you want to know
who & how they are deceiving you?
Find out
how professionals are protecting themselves with FREE software that can be
downloaded from the Internet. Learn the techniques they use to protect
their PCs.
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What is Spyware?
Identity
Theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes of this century. In today’s
world, PC users have become increasingly vulnerable to privacy invasions
through the installation of adware spyware that has been placed on their computer
without their knowledge.
Spyware applications are
programs and files that hide on your PC's hard drive without your direct
knowledge.
These programs allow hackers
and advertising companies to track your every move, both online and even
when you work offline. They can track the websites you visit, the items that
you buy online, the emails you send and receive, your Instant Message
dialog, and worst of all they can even record your credit card number,
personal identification numbers, and all of your passwords.
If you use dial-up to connect to the Internet then spyware can be used to
bill 900 numbers to your phone bill. This is just a short list of the harm
that spyware can cause.
All of your data is
traveling through the Internet to parties that are waiting to capitalize on
your information without your consent and is being sold to companies and
people right now! In some cases anything ever done on your computer can be
watched. The online world is no longer safe without an anti-Spyware
application to protect your PC.
How does Spyware get on my
computer?
If your Internet security controls aren’t properly
set, just visiting a Web site or clicking on a Web ad can install an app.
According to a recent report from research firm GartnerG2, more than 20
million people have installed adware applications (‘adware’ being a type of
spyware that reports back on a person’s activities to serve up targeted
advertising), and this covers only a portion of the Spyware on the loose.
Some companies use ‘key
loggers’, which allows them to see your
every keystroke. Still others let hackers not only track your behavior
but even take control of your PC.
Spyware can reach your PC
without
your knowledge or explicit approval. This is
always the case with ‘ad cookies’. More worrying are applications that
install themselves on the sly. Some are disguised as something useful.
In all likelihood, you willingly installed much of your spyware yourself
when downloading another application.
The best way to protect against spyware is to run
an application that identifies and removes it. These tools operate much
like anti-virus software. Their developers have identified hundreds of
spyware files, folders and Registry keys and search for them on your
hardware, offering to remove them when they turn up. If you treasure your
privacy, these tools are essential. Even if you locate spyware on your own,
manually deleting it is difficult and can be very tedious. Some spyware
includes ‘tricklers’ which reinstall files as you delete them. An
anti-spyware program is more likely to be able to eliminate the offenders.
There are numerous programs for removing Spyware.
A program I use is
Spyware Nuker. I've found it to
be very effective. You can download it
FREE
and scan your computer to see if it is infected.
Defeat the threat by detecting and removing:
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Spyware and adware that "phones
home" information about
you, your computer, and your surfing habits
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Remote access trojans (RATs) that
allow an attacker to
remotely control your computer
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Keyloggers that can steal
passwords and other
confidential data
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Denial-of-service (DoS) attack
agents that can crash or
hang a program, or your entire system
Frightened? You should be. This has been going on
for years now right under your nose, secretly. The Spyware Epidemic is
growing by leaps and bounds. The scariest part is that all of it is legal!
Over 95% of PCs have Spyware! You'll be shocked to discover what has
already been installed on your PC without your knowledge!
You can check your PC for Spyware Now
by downloading
Spyware Nuker
and scan your PC Free.
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