| Ridding your computer system of spyware menace | | | | such spyware program erstwhile referred to as the |
| as well as protecting your computer system against | | | | HACKER) on a daily basis/ as frequent as you use |
| future attacks is something you need to give serious | | | | your computer system |
| and urgent attention. | | | | HOW SPYWARE WORKS? |
| The rate and the degree at which internet fraud is | | | | Spyware is installed on your computer system |
| perpetrated is quite alarming. Every year, innocent | | | | (desktop, laptop, palmtop) without your knowledge |
| individuals lose quite a huge sum of hard earned | | | | or consent and runs in the background (invisible |
| money and savings to internet fraud, computer | | | | & out of sight) |
| system hackers and personal identity/passwords | | | | SPYWARE ATTACKS/ INFILTERATION/ INVASION |
| theft. | | | | Spyware infestation of your computer system |
| Any serious minded individual or computer system | | | | comes through a variety of avenues namely: |
| owner/user must give spyware threat a really serious | | | | 1. Through your connection to the internet (when |
| consideration, and should endeavor to be | | | | you visit a website/ surf the web 'www') |
| knowledgeable as best as possible with regards to | | | | 2. Downloading/ copying any sort of file/ folder from |
| spywares and hackers mode of operation and how | | | | the internet (music, games, wallpapers, softwares, |
| best to safeguard oneself from threats and attacks. | | | | applications, movies & videos, pictures, themes, |
| IDENTITY THEFT is a serious and critical issue worth | | | | etc) |
| all the effort to checkmate. | | | | 3. Usage of removable drives or media (floppy |
| In this first part of SPYWARE EXPOSED presented | | | | diskette drives, cd rom drive, hard disk drive, flash |
| here, we shall be considering What a Spyware is? | | | | drives/ microvaults, zip drives, sim card readers, |
| How a Spyware works, and also ways and means by | | | | ipods, etc) |
| which spyware invades a Computer system? | | | | 4. Visit to certain types of sites while on the internet |
| WHAT IS SPYWARE? | | | | 5. Running of certain types of programmes on your |
| Spyware is a computer software program/ | | | | computer system (such as .exe/ .bat/ .dll/ .com) |
| application specially designed to SPY, PROBE & | | | | There you have it folks, what a spyware is, how a |
| SCAN your computer system for personal and | | | | spyware works and then, means and avenues that |
| confidential/ sensitive information about you and | | | | your computer system get infected and affected by |
| REPORT back to a third party (who is the vendor of | | | | spywares. |