Thursday, July 23, 2009

Cleaning Spywares & Ad-Aware

After a long, hard day work, you feel relaxed, its near 5.00 o’clock, a good evening waits you. A couple of drink with friends, a fine meal with wife or a good movie waiting you to watch at home. Suddenly you realise that your upload speed is higher then normal, some files are getting lost second by second and the important notes of tomorrows big meeting is at a strangers hand. Yes, you are another victim of spywares.

What is Spyware / Adware?

Spywares are little programs created for getting personal information from 3rd persons computer. Usually they are hidden inside “free” programs and sometimes informations can be found in EULA (End User License Agreement)’s. Spywares usually work hand in hand with adware’s and cause various problems from innocent net surfing and shopping database profit researchs to serious password and credit card key number / code stealing.

How to Counter Attack?

Most of the antivirus programs doesn’t recognise spywares and adwares as threats. They just don’t consider spywares in same category with worms and viruses, therefore without using a proper way to fight them, your computer, personal files, credit card numbers etc.. can never be safe. If you are looking for full time security versus this threats, Ad-Aware is the best solution.

Ad-Aware is a free, easy to use, user firendly computer security program. It can scan your RAM, Registry, hard drivers and external storage (external hard disks, flash disks etc) devices for data-mining, unwanted advertising and tracking components. Ad-Aware can clean your system easily, without interrupting your internet connection or activities and uses minimum ram capacity.

Ad-Aware includes a improved threat detection, free and fast updates, a real time security shield and easy to use personal interface. İt also includes TrackSweep for erasing your tracks left behind internet surfing and a Toolbox to optimize your computers performance. Ad-Aware is compatible with both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista and XP.

You can download ad-aware and see the differance yourself.

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