If your computer is behaving oddly, is slowing down, gets hung up in the middle of your work, or is bedeviled with pop-ups, then it is probably infected with spyware.
Spyware gets into your computer due to due to something you have done, like clicking a button on a pop-up window, or installing free games, programs or software.
Its estimated that anywhere from twenty to fifty percent of online network traffic is accomplished by spyware.
In fact, on eighty percent of all corporate systems networks incorporate ad-ware; fifteen percent of these networks have system monitoring software running in the background.
There are lots of applications for the removal of spyware and for spyware detection, like Spybot, Ad-aware, and Microsoft Anti-Spyware. These provide vigorous detect+J9ion and protection from spy-ware as well as internet cookie identification (which then lets you know where the cookies came from).
A good anti-spyware program should have the following:
1. Definition updates. This tool lets the user download updates to their anti-spyware in order to further protect their computer as new spyware is developed.
2. Real-time...