Spyware is an ever growing Internet threat. A test done by National Cyber Security Alliance showed that more than 90% of all PCs are infected with spyware. These dangerous programs are designed to bypass anti-virus & firewall software and the user knows nothing about it.
Once spyware is embedded on your PC, it can slow down your computers performance to a crawl and gather personal information about you. Spyware programs do not replicate like viruses and worms but can be just as harmful to your PC. Spyware can get into your PC in several ways.
One of the most common ways is when you install it without even knowing it. Spyware can come bundled in a shareware or freeware program without your knowledge, once you have downloaded the program to your computer it goes to work silently in the background collecting your personal data so that the author of the spyware program can use or sell your personal data to a third party.
There are many types of spyware programs that can infect your PC through security holes in your web browser, when you click a link to a web page that is controlled by a spyware author, the page can contain malicious coding and can...