Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Spywares


Spywares

Spywares are computer programs that sneak into your machine, hide in the background and affect your interaction with your computer while making unwanted changes to your user experience without your knowledge.

While the term spyware reflects about those types of software that secretly monitors the user's behavior by keeping itself hidden from the owner of Computer, the functions of spyware extend well beyond simple monitoring.

Spyware programs can collect various types of personal information like Internet surfing habit, sites that have been visited, and can also interfere with user control of the computer in many ways, like installing additional software, redirecting Web browsers , accessing third party websites blindly that will cause more harmful viruses and diverting advertising revenue to a others websites.

Spywares can also change computer settings, resulting in slow connection speeds, different home pages other then you choose, and loss of Internet speed or other programs being non functiona

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