Thursday, April 30, 2009

Removing Adware and Spyware Software

Adware and Spyware have become a big problem on the internet, with computer owners not only having to worry about computer viruses but now also additional software that, although not exactly the same as a computer virus, could be considered as a virus on its own.

Why is spyware and adware like a virus?

The reason for this definition is simple – spyware and adware installs itself onto your computer either (a) without your knowledge whatsoever, or (b) disguised as other software. In both cases, you did not ask for the software, but you got it anyway.

So what does it do?

Unlike a virus, spyware and adware is not strictly or directly harmful, although it does cause harm in other ways. (Malware is much the same as spyware and adware, except that it deliberately harms your computer). Spyware or adware's main perogative is to get you to buy specific products.

For instance, if you have spyware or adware on your computer, you may have noticed the following:

1) Annoying pop-ups either on your desktop or in your internet browser about some or other product. (Sometimes, the pop-ups can be rather embaressing, depending on the product being sold.)

2) Your computer's reponse times and general speed seems to have slowed down.

3) You are getting redirected to some other website you never asked for whenever you type in a website name.

4) You're browsing a website and suddenly the website diverts to another website – and it always seems to be the same website.

5) You've got some new deskbar applet and there is no way of uninstalling it.

All of these would indicate that spyware or adware has infiltrated your computer and intends on staying there once you remove it. Unfortunately, you will find that spyware will never 'uninstall' or even provide a chance to uninstall. Adware also can't be removed manually – it has written itself into your registry and Windows environment, and can sometimes even pretend to be something legit.

Furthermore, even if you got rid of the Spyware through some manual means, you will find it reappears later because the Adware has written an installation and update file into your computer. In other words, it updates itself.

This all wastes your time and your resources, plus wastes hard-drive space and can become a bigger problem once spyware leads to more adware, until you find the program taking over your computer entirely.

So what do you do?

Well, the best way to get rid of spyware and adware is to install spyware and adware software removal that can be trusted.

You need to be careful, many spyware and adware software disguises itself as a removal tool when it isn't. Others are just fake – they pretend as if they are wiping your hard drive clean when in fact they aren't doing anything. Still, others just aren't any good – they do not get updated regularly, or aren't comprehensive when scanning, so even if they remove the spyware for now it comes back later because the installation or update file for the adware was never removed.

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