Mention the word Spyware, Adware, or Malware to any computer Geek, or computer technician, or computer user and they will shudder with fear. That's because these programs not only are incredibly stubborn when you're trying to remove them, but they often change administrator or security settings on your computer. These vicious bugs not only get into your computer but they can virtually knock the computer out of commission by changing or removing values in the Windows registry.
Today's spyware is more common than a virus for the average Windows user surfing the internet. Spyware has hundreds of successful ways to disable or infect your computer via all the common exploits or software bugs, like errors within the Windows operating system allowing spyware the use of your CPU cycles, to spam others, and to solicit your desktop to show you pop ups for everything from pornography to other spyware programs that will claim to be able to remove the currently installed spyware or clean a virus from your computer, when in fact it can make it worse by installing more spyware.
It is so important to remove spyware from your computer system, if you don’t remove it as soon as you know it is on the system you may be in for a rude awakening when you start getting all sorts of pop ups from companies trying to sell you garbage. Spyware copies secure data in your computer and sends it off to malicious hackers that sit and wait to sell you something or they sell your information such as ID theft. This is why it is vital to remove this malicious software from your computer system.
It is so important to back up your computer system. I strongly urge my clients to purchase a usb external drive to back up all their data on. The worst case scenario is that your hard drive needs to be formatted and the operating system will need to be reinstalled along with all the programs and data that used to be on your computer.
But first you may try to remove the spyware from one of many software spyware removers that are on the market. I personally prefer this piece of software called AVG.