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It goes with little fuss that the internet is one of the greatest resources ever to emerge from the invention of the computer, because it opened a great deal of opportunities in making our lives much better or easier, since you can shop from the comfort of your home, while working as well as enjoying the entertainment provided. Nonetheless, there are individuals who have seen the net to be the point through which they might generate income albeit illegally and in the approach hurting others by selling them phony spyware, something aimed at protecting one from destruction.
The internet, though a vast source of information is now the place where fraudsters are looking to harm others and possibly make some money from it, but just as we are quite careful in other spheres of our lives, we would need to also take some precautions when it comes to the internet. One, do not pay attention to the pop up windows that are usually on numerous sites and claim that your computer is at risk due to the presence of spyware on your computer. They usually try to scare you into taking their product which later turns out to be unreliable; do not heed to their call. If you give in you will be in fact be installing spyware that you have paid for!
It is also quite possible that though you may have chosen to close their dialog box and not heeded to their call, that mere act of clicking there could subject you to being disturbed by such people in the sense that your web browser may be forced to go to sites that the fraudsters associate with. You are urged thus not to even take a peek at such pop up ads.
You should also not be tricked by their claims of having the approval of certain credible and well known products such as Windows, with others even having fake logos of such. This is all a ploy to get you into their noose. If you indeed fall prey to such people, you would soon begin to notice that the anti-spyware program is indeed not genuine, as it would do automatic scans, which the credible anti-spyware programs do not do, and then in the scan, they miss certain critical files. Some have been known to download dangerous software without user's knowledge and thus harm the computer. You should thus ensure that you buy top rated anti-spyware programs, which you could identify from reviews.
