Another type of spyware, less dangerous than keyloggers but still annoying, is a hijacker. It hijacks or forces your browser (your Internet Explorer or Firefox, for instance) to use a different home page than the one you picked. Instead you get some bogus home page you don’t want. Sometimes it makes you use a different [...]

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One really bad type of spyware is called a keylogger. It records everything you type, including bank account numbers, passwords, and credit card numbers and then sends off the information to people who try to use your money or credit card.
The solution is to download and run anti-spyware. See how here. Ducktoes to [...]

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Spyware seems to be a rolling snowball of a term gathering other terms as it grows. It’s getting huge. The term spyware now includes not only spyware but also adware, malware, and trojan horses.
Adware is advertising in the form of pop-ups and toolbars that come bundled with free software. The adware pop-ups cover your browser [...]

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I use two anti-spyware. They both seem to catch a lot of spyware, and each catches some the other misses. And they are both free. Lavasoft Ad Aware has a free version and Spybot is free–although I strongly recommend giving a donation to Spybot so we can all keep using it. I even bought the [...]

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Spyware is software that runs on your computer without your permission. Or knowledge. It can slow down your computer to a standstill by running a lot of processes in the background. And you pick it up it by just surfing the internet. At best it invades your privacy by recording your internet habits. At worst [...]

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