Spyware is software that is secretly installed on your PC and designed to steal sensitive details such as passwords and credit card numbers. It is usually easily combated by anti-spyware programs, such as Spybot Search & Destroy, designed to detect and remove spyware infections as soon as they appear. However, the spyware writers are adopting new techniques to hide their infections, which makes them difficult to detect. Coupled with this is the problem that it frequently takes the anti-spyware software producers a few days to update their software to remove a threat after it is first detected. This means that when a malicious infection is first released, it can rampage across the Internet before anti-spyware tools are able to remove it. When your anti-spyware software wont remove an infection, dont panic. Its perfectly possible to remove these infections by hand. In this article, well show you how.
Category: Internet & Security
Issue: 2009 Issue 5 August/September
Operating Systems: XP, Vista
Article Reference: S31b