Spyware installs yourself into your computer through other program installers. These include peer-to-peer networks from where we download music, drive-by downloads that deliver spyware to you via an Active X control, and greeting card sites that ask you to download a greeting card viewer and spyware crawls in instead.
Spyware is an uninvited guest on our computers – and if we knew exactly how it is going to affect our system, we would obviously never consent to install it. This is why it uses all sorts of nasty ways to insinuate itself into our computer. How does it do it?
Spyware may pretend to be a virus like a Trojan but that’s not what it is. It manages to get into your system easily and by the time you know it is there, it is already settled in too well.
Ways In Which Spyware Can, And Will, Sneak Into Your System
Spyware rides with other program installers. Take those peer-to-peer networks from where we download music. You’ll find that there are loads of free programs that install suspicious spyware along with what you thought you installed. This can easily end up in a system crash for you or your private information being...