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Effects of Spyware on the Computer

February 9th, 2011 Leave a comment Go to comments

If you have browsed the Internet for a substantial number of hours it is guaranteed that you have downloaded some sort of Spyware to your system, albeit inadvertently. That is the reason it is called Spyware. If it made itself known it would not be spying. Spyware is not illegal software. It is downloaded with the ‘permission’ of the user. Once the Spyware downloads and installs itself it begins, first of all, to consolidate itself on the machine. It does this by entering its information in multiple parts of the registry. These entries can only be removed with Spyware removal utilities and there are many free anti Spyware and Adware removal tools available to do a satisfactory job for you.

Effects On The Registry

A lot of add-on Internet Explorer tool bars are also Spyware. They constantly monitor the users browsing habits and the type of software that is installed and run on the computer. At times this may be helpful to the user as the relevant advertisements are directed to the browser. However, in the long run this Spyware will definitely slow down the system to a crawl. This malicious software must be removed from the system as soon as possible with free Adware and Spyware removal tools. Spyware is constantly making entries to the registry. This makes the registry grow out of proportion. Since the system has to refer to the registry multiple times in a session, the registry has to be scanned from the beginning every time. Considering that the registry has tens of thousands of records it may take a very long time to scan and locate the information being sought. Spyware keeps adding junk to the registry and this slows the system down.

Removal Technique

Spyware can be removed from the Computer with the use of anti-Spyware utilities. However, these utilities will only uninstall the Spyware from the operating system. The anti-Spyware utilities are not designed to go in to the registry hives and make changes. Going into the registry and removing the entries is very specialized operations and cannot be clubbed with some other software or program. Removing the Spyware entries from the registry is very important. Because once the Spyware determines that the exe file has been removed it will kick in from the registry and reinstall the exe from the Internet site it came from initially. Therefore removing the entries with a registry cleaner is very important. Free Microsoft Spyware removal tools and PC registry Cleaner are good software that can remove all redundant and bad entries from the system registry.

Qualities Of A Good Registry Cleaner

A good free Spyware removal utility will have three facilities such as a registry backup function a restore function and a scan and repair function. It is important that the spyware cleaner make a good backup of the registry just in case the system fails to function properly after the computer clean up.

Arvind
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  1. NaturalMLBFan
    February 9th, 2011 at 15:59 | #1

    What can spyware do to your computer and what are the effects ?And how can I remove them from my computer ?
    I’m curious about this spyware stuff.I’ve heard about it but never thought it was serious.I just wanted to know the pro’s answers are.So please if you don’t mind people explain it to me. Thanks

  2. Jake
    February 9th, 2011 at 21:01 | #2

    Spyware is usually installed without the users knowledge and can collect information about the user. Hence the name ‘spy’.

    Some good free programs to detect/monitor/delete this are:

    Malware bytes anti-malware
    Spybot search and destroy

    Also use anti-virus software (good ones are):

    AVG anti-virus
    Ad-Aware
    Avast anti-virus
    References :
    own experience

  3. RAVINDU
    February 9th, 2011 at 21:03 | #3

    Get Linux and always use while using Internet and inserting Removable media.Then no spyware.

    http://www.ubuntu.com
    References :

  4. poptart¿
    February 9th, 2011 at 21:05 | #4

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyware

    spyware, like its name is software the spies on you – it logs your info and sends it to its creators.
    References :

  5. Sienna
    February 9th, 2011 at 21:07 | #5

    Spyware can spy all your information without your knowledge,It’really a nuisance?First ,you must know what kind of spyware of it,then you can remove it,Get more from here http://www.spy-tech-monitoring.com/spytech-realtime-spy.html Good luck!
    References :
    http://www.spy-tech-monitoring.com/spytech-realtime-spy.html

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