Spyware Removal Guide- Choose the best Spyware Removal Application

Spyware refers to software that collects useful information from your personal computer and sends to another computer without your permission. The term spyware is different from viruses and worms because it doesn't self-replicate however it is designed to make use of infected computers for some commercial gain. Main motive of spyware is to deliver unwanted pop-up advertisements and theft of confidential information. It may cause Internet connection failure and some printing problems. Spyware can be installed via file-swapping programs that are generally used to download music and movies from Internet. If it is installed on your system it monitors your all Internet related activities and then transmits your private information to other party.

You can easily remove spyware by getting all information about spyware. For the purpose of spyware removal it is essential to find spyware on your system. You can detect spyware by following certain tips like:

-Note all the list of tasks that is currently running on your PC. You can check it by pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL. It helps you in finding new unknown thing that occurs on your system.

-Sometimes spyware is listed in the startup list so it is important to be familiar with your startup list. Spyware can restart your personal computer by appearing in the startup list and it also slows down the system processing. You can check your startup list by clicking on the start-run option and then type msconfig and OK. It will show you running programs at the time of rebooting.

Spyware removal is important due to security purposes. Various companies provide free as well as low cost spyware removal software that check your computer and help you in removing the unwanted spyware. You can also remove it by uninstalling unfamiliar applications. For that purpose you should go to Add or Remove option from control panel and uninstall the unknown applications. It is an easy way to get rid of spyware.

You can also choose a better quality spyware removal application. It's an effective way to secure your system from spyware. You should run these applications in safe mode because safe mode loads a file that is required by operating system. Spyware removal program can efficiently remove spyware in safe mode. If you're sure that your system has a spyware you can also eliminate spyware with the help of system restore feature.

Several companies are currently providing the best spyware removal products. You can choose one of the following spyware removal products.

• Spyware Doctor

• eTrust Pestpatrol

• Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta 1

• Spybot Search and Destroy

• Ad-Aware SE 6 Personal

• SpySubtract PRO

• Aluria's Spyware Eliminator

Remember that prevention is always much better than finding and removing spyware. Spyware prevention is an easy task instead of finding in your system. Spyware can easily attack on your privacy. It can also make your system crash. You can prevent your personal computer from the spyware with the help of following tips:

• Keep your software up to date and always choose latest security patches

• Adjust your Internet explorer security settings

• Don't forget to implement firewalls

• Try something other than Internet Explorer like Firefox or Opera

• Whenever you're going to download a software from a website read all security warnings, privacy statements and license agreement carefully.

• Be alert while downloading some free music and movie file sharing programs because these are main source of spyware.

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Condoms for Your PC - Log Your PC Maintenance

INTRODUCTION - For years you've known about maintenance for your PC. You have anti-virus and anti-spyware software. You use a firewall. You're careful about where you surf the Internet. You don't open every Email attachment that you get - even from friends. You may run your maintenance utilities as scheduled jobs. You may even have a script to run your utilities. But, do you know the results? Do you have a log of the results? Particularly important to you, if you have a network of PCs, is whether you have a central log from which you can see the results of your maintenance. Let's look at what you might want to track, including anti-virus and anti-spyware data.

ANTI-VIRUS & ANTI-SPYWARE - For each of these, a log record to show that they were run can be helpful. Otherwise, how do you know when they were last run? How can you ensure that they are run at least once each week? How can you tell who ran the maintenance on a PC in case there is a question about a problem?

PERFORMANCE - If you have a log an objective measurement of the performance of your PC, you could compare other PCs to it to determine whether there might be a problem within a particular model of PC. You could tell whether the performance of a specific PC was deteriorating. You could use it to pro-actively determine, when the test time exceeded a parameter, that there might be malware on the PC.

IP ADDRESS - When you find a problem that exists on or comes from a PC, you may find the IP address and want to know where that PC is located. If you track the current IP address, you can find the PC in question from your log entries rather than making a visit to each PC in order to get the IP address.

DISK SPACE - In order to run disk defragmentation effectively, you need to have about 20% of the disk space available. If you log the amount of disk space remaining, you can be pro-active about efficient disk defragmentation and planning for upgrades of disk capacity.

DISK CLEANUP & DEFRAGMENTATION - Log the fact that these maintenance items were run. As simple as the tasks may be, they may give you clues to whether your PC is performing poorly because these elements of maintenance were not performed or whether there is a more serious problem.

SUMMARY - It is time to become pro-active about PC maintenance and to begin PC maintenance management. Rather than a passive process in which you run several maintenance tasks, track the results and observe them. A log can give you great clues to tell you about your PC and to help to protect it to avoid problems.

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