Anti Spyware Tools - The Truth About Virus Cleaners

Anti spyware tools are an absolute necessity these days because spyware is becoming so widespread it is impossible to avoid

. The best we can do with spyware is accept the fact we will be bombarded by it and it is up to us to have our computers equipped with software that will either stop it from entering or erase it quickly after it does enter.

To understand exactly what spyware is it is important to get the spyware terminology straight. Knowing the following will help:

. Spyware is a kind, or a strain of malware

. Adware is also a kind of malware

. Actually, just about any kind of software that has been developed to do things to your computer you don't want to happen to it is malware.

. Malware is the short way to say "malicious software."

Through the last several years the line between viruses and spyware has become blurred. Programmers develop spyware to get information about you. The crooks who buy this software often use it to do odious things to you. They want to get your banking information so they can make a withdrawal, compliments of your hard earned money. They sometimes are after your passwords so they can browse your online banking account. Sometimes they use it to steal your identity altogether. These are not games these spyware users are playing; it is real hardened criminal activity they are engaged in.

Two of the more popular kinds of spyware are keyloggers and browser hijackers. A Trojan is a type of virus, but it often enters into your computer as spyware. With traditional viruses you have to actually do something, like open an email attachment or put a disk from a questionable source into your A-drive in order to set it off.

However, Trojans make your computer their home in much more devious ways. For instance, they could enter your computer as a real game that could possibly be a lot of fun to play but they set off a virus as you play the game. The next thing you know you get a blue screen error!

There are many more kinds of viruses and spyware but the point is all virus cleaners don't expel all kinds of spyware from your computer. It hasn't been until very recently virus cleaners have come to the market that will get rid of all types of spyware as well. I have seen many computers, through the last several years with very bad spyware infections and the owners thought the virus program that came installed on the computer had been taking care of these things. They were not!

Unless your virus cleaner states it also cleans spyware, it is just a virus cleaner. More and more software equipped to deal with all types of spyware as well as viruses become available daily. Still, it is possible you have a virus cleaner made just for viruses. If you do, you also must have a spyware cleaner installed on your PC in order to get total protection. Or, you could dump the old virus cleaner and get one of the new ones that deal with all viruses and spyware types.

by: Ed Lathrop

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