What are they? Spyware are programs that are installed automatically without your knowledge, which maintain a constant connection and a relative passage of data between you. computers and a number of Marketing Companies. Generally these spyware are not harmful to your computer. computers, but they create major security problems for your personal data and send information that could also be used by hackers or other malicious people. However, these unwanted guests certainly occupy some of your space. 'connection bandwidth', and being always 'active in the background', they can slow down or even block some applications.
Spyware can present itself in an 'obvious' way by creating a folder like any program with the related uninstall option (are we sure they really remove them?). Other spyware, however, is hidden or even 'internal' to another program.
Everyone will have downloaded or installed freeware or shareware software such as iMesh, Kazaa, or simply free games such as Bingo Master Demo, Byorithms, etc. : this software is used as a lock pick to install spyware with apparently nice and harmless names such as:
Bonzi Buddy
CometCursor
Conducent/Timesink
Cydoor
DoubleClick
Easy Link – Surfing
eZula's TopText
FlashTrack
Gator
GoHip's Browser Enhancement
Radiate/Aureate
SaveNow
VX2 – Transponder
Web3000
WebHancer
etc. How to find them and remove them. As already mentioned, many of these unwelcome guests offer the possibility of being easily uninstalled, while others require more complex and sometimes even dangerous operations for the integrity of the Operating System (see modifying the System Registry file).
Fortunately, in recent times some free software has appeared on the market that helps us find and eliminate spyware. Programs such as Ad-Aware from Lavasoftusa.com, Spybot, Pestpatrol, etc..., are also very effective in the shareware version and are an ideal complement to the Antivirus+Firewall combination. They also have the possibility of updating their spyware archive online to always provide an up-to-date service. I therefore strongly recommend downloading one of these tools and carrying out scheduled weekly checks to avoid unpleasant inconveniences. The Irreducibles. Lately, some truly 'bad' spyware have also appeared: they do not warn the user that they have been installed, and are removed with difficulty by spyware removers. Since these software are at the limit of legality, their producers take refuge in countries with a very permissive internet jurisdiction and therefore manage to survive by changing name, domain, etc...
In any case, the enormous amount of information on the internet comes to our aid this time too: we need to arm ourselves with a little patience and the main search engines will be ready to provide us with the address of some web page with all the necessary instructions useful for cleaning our website. computer.
However, it is good to always keep this little rule in mind: on the internet no one (or almost no one) gives anything away, and therefore when we receive a 'gift' such as free software, it is possible that we will always be asked for a quid pro quo even if we don't realize it! Andrea Stefanato
www.stefanato.com
source: edited by Andrea Stefanato
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