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The Need for Adware
and Spyware Blocker
There is this one law school student whose thesis is
about money laundering so oftentimes she would google
the term to come up with a ready list of online
references. This proved to be useful to her and the
entire process of writing her paper. After several
months of doing so, she was confronted with problems
like being directed to a weird page totally not related
to money laundering every time she types the same words.
At first she thought it was just a glitch in the
internet system and then she rationalized that no it
maybe a glitch in the search engine she is using but the
persistent occurrence of such a thing made her think
that someone bugged her. We all hate bugging people us
but people we can fend of. What this law student is
confronted with is a computer bug that she cannot fend
off. In the first place she is not a technology savvy
person and in the second place she never uses her laptop
for any other things than academic research and actual
writing of her papers.
The situation above is not an isolated case. There are
many people who find themselves caught up in technology
problems that are mind boggling but actually can be
answered with two words and those two words are spyware
and adware. The infamous term of spyware was first
coined in the year 1995 but it was popularized in the
year 2000. Spyware is a computer software innocently
infiltrated in a personal computer to be able to access
personal information of the user.
This is done by studying logging keystrokes, web
browsing history and even scanning a user’s hard drive.
Sounds like something we see only in James Bond movies
but apparently we are wrong for anyone can be a victim
of spyware. It is safe to use the word victim because no
one wants to be monitored of all their online
activities. Spyware can understandably be used to spy on
criminals because such use is beneficial to society but
how about the use of spyware to intercept credit card
details and the like. There is simply no excuse for the
lax of the use of spyware.
What ordinary people can do to protect themselves is to
block spyware and all other software programs similar to
it like adware and malware. This can easily be done by
availing adware and spyware blocker programs online. The
role of these blocking programs include to remove or
disable existing spyware programs or to avoid the
installation of these malicious software programs.
Spyware, adware, malware are not like virus or worms
that self replicate but they can be just as hassle as
their counterparts for whoever wants to be disrupted of
their normal personal computer activities. One of the
more popular hassles cause by these infectious software
programs is the slowness of the computer which can
really be annoying because when you are at work you tend
to want to finish things quick not just because you are
required but also because you want more done or you want
to be able to go home early.
In some infections, spyware is not even evident as the
bad guy so it can get away with its crime. It is best
then to have a ready blocker to at least do something
for preventing any infection to occur in the first
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