Stop It Before It Starts: Easy Ways to Keep Spyware From Sneaking Up on You

Overview

A person may come across several ads that offer to protect the computer from spyware and malicious content while surfing through the Internet. A person may consider downloading or even purchasing them, but then one think that the computer cannot possibly be infected with anything after all one did maintenance on it regularly. A person may decide to download a free trial version and run the scan it offers and it comes back and says that the computer have over two thousand suspected pieces of spyware! This paper will look at a few ways that spyware sneaks in unawares and some preventive measures that can be taken.