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Spyware are recent threats that can compromise the computer of any computer's users surfing regularly the Internet. The present article will inform you more about those false security related programs, including Antispyware Soft. To begin, you should understand how such a threat can infect and compromise a computer system. There are many websites on the Internet that announce you that your PC is infected with a high number of viruses and that it includes many suspicious files. All you need to know is that all those websites do hide in reality compromised programs, also called malware.
Those webpages will tell you to do some online scan of your computer system. Then to download and install some application that is supposed to remove any threats from your computer. If you do choose that option and click on the "Scan Now'" button, you will get Antispyware Soft being installed on your PC. Once this "antivirus" has become part of your computer, the main way used by those hackers to steal your money is to make you think your PC is very infected and you need to buy the full registered version of this application so you will get better protection.
If you want to be sure your computer has been infected by such a malware like Antispyware Soft, or any others part of that family, you can use some automatic tools you can find on the Web. They were created to deal with those kind of threats. Because regular antivirus solutions cannot identify such spyware, so I do recommend you to use such application.
Some PC users will chose to manually remove Antispyware Soft from their PC. However, this solution is not suitable for those who are not experienced enough with computers, as they could do more damage to the operating system than helping it to be clean of threats. So what we should lean from those fake antivirus solutions is to be very careful when using the Internet so you can stay away from any similar threats.
