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