Topic: Viruses, Spyware & Other Internet Monsters
Adware & Spyware
Even advertising on reputable sites can contain tracking programs and bots to watch your movements around the internet. Most times this information is used to help you, by offering you ads and products geared towards your interests, based on where you've surfed. More malicious programs gather info about you and send it back to their creators for criiminal use.
To detect and remove both the benign and malicious ones, check out these two programs, Ad-Aware and Spybot Search & Destroy. Both programs are free but don't forget to bookmark those sites and check for updates as the programs are revised to detect and remove newer spyware.
Last updated on December 27, 2003 10:40 AMComments
I learned about adware from this article, but i learned nothing about the causes and affects of spyware.
Posted by: Michael at April 8, 2004 02:11 PMPost a comment