Getting Rid from Adwares and Spywares

Do you consider yourself a smart Web Surfer or downloader? Do you consider yourself immune to threat from spywares, known for tracking and monitoring you silently. Then I must say you are not. To support this, let me figure out some points-

1.   Most commonly they are installed on our system as a hidden program, behind something legitimate which you had given permission. They may be in form of installation programs, or drive by downloads, i.e. asking you for a plugin in order to view a page.

2.   Unlike other programs, these spywares always work in stealth mode so that you can never got to know about the program. You would not even see them in task manager, in add/remove programs, etc.

3.   Popups, unwanted websites, unknown errors, slower pc, are very clear indication of spywares.

Guess why someone would create adware or spywares? A simple thought, they can send you unwanted ads for which they can be paid by the companies thy advertise for, or they can report your name, email address, and other information to a survey company. 

Now lets talk about the removal of adware. The methodology which most of the adware/spyware removal tools use is similar to antiviruses. They also maintain a library of spyware filenames and registry keys and then searching and removing them from systems. 

However the first thing I would suggest you to install is a firewall so that no one can get access to your system. This would even work in the case when your system is already infected.  In fact most of the operating systems nowadays comes with default firewalls within them. Some other firewalls that may of your interest are :

a.     Zone Alarm [http://www.zonealarm.com]

b.     Sygate Personal Pro [http://www.tucows.com/thankyou.html?swid=213160]

c.      Kerio Personal Firewall

d.     AVG Internet Security Firewall [http://www.avg.com/us-en/home-small-office-security]

But again I would say that getting a good firewall do not ends the story. Its just a part of solution. Besides frewalls, you must also use one or more anti-spywares to check your system for current infections. As an add-on safety, I would recommend you o use spyware removal tools to make your system more infection free. These all are useful for this task:

a.     Spybot [http://spybot-virus-scan.com]

b.     Webroot Spy Sweeper [http://webroot.com/wb/products/spysweeper]

c.     Spyware Doctor [http://pctools.com/spyware-doctor]

d.     Bazooka [http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner]

e.     Hijack This [http://spychecker.com/program/hijackthis.html] [Advanced Users]

Some of them can even deal with the things in which antiviruses do not takes interest. These things include ad-ware, Trojans, key loggers, track wares, etc. Along with scanning part, they would tell you how to uninstall them these potentially unwanted apps, and that’s too with step by step instructions.

 

I assures you going ahead with this procedure will simply make you immune to spyware and ad wares, apart from your expertise in web surfing.