To Remove the Worse You Need the Best
Imagine yourself walking along a busy street، minding your own business. You stop by a mens clothing store. You look at the window display، point at a new pair of shoes. After a few minutes of gawking at the window display you move on home.
As you go inside your house، you noticed a flyer on your porch. The flyer is on the exact pair of shoes that you saw in the mens store. How did they know? Was it coincidence? If this all happened in the internet، then its probably not a coincidence. Your computer has been watched and your movement in the Web has been recorded. Your operating system has some spyware in it.
Spyware are computer programs that attach themselves in whatever things you download online. They are designed to track you wherever you go online. Spyware is a little different from adware. Adware are also referred to as freeware and are basically ads that pop-up when you open a website or webpage or open a program.
Spyware are similar in that they are also freeware، however، spyware programs have embedded tracking programs which reports your activity in the internet to the spyware agent which in turn provides the information to advertisers and web developers. With this information، advertisers and web developers and even the government can feed your computers with any information they want without your consent and even without you noticing it.
It is best، therefore that you employ some precautionary measures yourselves to stay free from spyware and adware attacks. First you need to disable auto installation of software programs in your internet browsers and you need use pop-up blockers and firewall protection.
This is your first line of defense against such spyware programs. The next thing to do is to get decent anti-spyware programs. It shouldnt be too hard، there are a lot of them nowadays and most of them are free or at the very least have free trial accounts.
Among the most popular free anti-spyware and adware programs are Ad Aware and Active Shield. Ad Aware offers advanced protection against Data-mining، Parasites، aggressive advertising، Scumware and some traditional viruses and tracking systems like Trojans، Dialers، Malware and Browser hijackers. Active Shield on the other hand targets trojans and spyware.
Other popular anti-spyware software include Spy-Ad Exterminator Free which searches the computers memory، hard drives، and registry for spyware، adware، worms، hijacks، keyloggers، among others
