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The Need for Adware and Spyware Blocker

There is this one law school student whose thesis is about money laundering so oftentimes she would google the term to come up with a ready list of online references. This proved to be useful to her and the entire process of writing her paper. After several months of doing so, she was confronted with problems like being directed to a weird page totally not related to money laundering every time she types the same words.

At first she thought it was just a glitch in the internet system and then she rationalized that no it maybe a glitch in the search engine she is using but the persistent occurrence of such a thing made her think that someone bugged her. We all hate bugging people us but people we can fend of. What this law student is confronted with is a computer bug that she cannot fend off. In the first place she is not a technology savvy person and in the second place she never uses her laptop for any other things than academic research and actual writing of her papers.

The situation above is not an isolated case. There are many people who find themselves caught up in technology problems that are mind boggling but actually can be answered with two words and those two words are spyware and adware. The infamous term of spyware was first coined in the year 1995 but it was popularized in the year 2000. Spyware is a computer software innocently infiltrated in a personal computer to be able to access personal information of the user.

This is done by studying logging keystrokes, web browsing history and even scanning a user’s hard drive. Sounds like something we see only in James Bond movies but apparently we are wrong for anyone can be a victim of spyware. It is safe to use the word victim because no one wants to be monitored of all their online activities. Spyware can understandably be used to spy on criminals because such use is beneficial to society but how about the use of spyware to intercept credit card details and the like. There is simply no excuse for the lax of the use of spyware.

What ordinary people can do to protect themselves is to block spyware and all other software programs similar to it like adware and malware. This can easily be done by availing adware and spyware blocker programs online. The role of these blocking programs include to remove or disable existing spyware programs or to avoid the installation of these malicious software programs.

Spyware, adware, malware are not like virus or worms that self replicate but they can be just as hassle as their counterparts for whoever wants to be disrupted of their normal personal computer activities. One of the more popular hassles cause by these infectious software programs is the slowness of the computer which can really be annoying because when you are at work you tend to want to finish things quick not just because you are required but also because you want more done or you want to be able to go home early.

Cleandrive - A new Anti-Spyware tool was released.

It is a common problem that almost anything that you do on your PC can be spied out by others. There is a big market where money is made by simply tracking your online behavior (what sites you surf, what you like to search for...). If you do not want that your privacy will be fully destroyed, you should do something against it.

Everyone has a virus scanner installed. But usually thats are not enough. They will not clean the traces you leave on a PC as they are not virus related.
We know there are several so called "Clean up tools" available. But they all have one disadvantage. They never get updated regulary or if so they leak of important features like "wipe instead of delete". Two weeks ago there was a new software released called "GSA Cleandrive". It gets updated almost once a month and has many features. But the best of all is, that you don't have to care about anything. Its very easy to use.

GSA Cleandrive can help you to get rid of most of the privacy violations you get each day. It deletes all internet traces (like the web sites you have visited), recently opened files (like your last played video files) or even the logs that show what programs you have run lately (for example a game you have started in office). This award winning antispy software deletes your history of activities on your PC. Erase tracks that could be used to steal your identity (Identity Theft).

The program will help you to make your machine faster. The longer you have a system, the more programs you install, the slower your system will become. By cleaning up unused files and temp directories of your applications, it will result in a much faster and stable system.

Top 3 Anti-virus software

We all know that the main problem in windows is security, to give you an idea how you can protect your PC. I will show you details about most effective 3 anti-virus software.

1. Kaspersky.

It has a very clean and easy-to-use interface, it’s settings are divided intro three tabs, within each tab, you can choose from several other functions and can work as anti-virus, firewall, or both, giving 100% protection to your computer. It is recommended both for newbies and experienced users. Home users who want only protection from viruses and attacks need to install the software and let him in the way it is, no change, but advanced users can see everything what happens on their computer, adding exceptions and asking them whenever something is going on.

The test shows that it is 100% effective, he detect and clean all viruses and and generates no false alarms. It is updated hourly and we will know that it will not miss any virus.

2. Bit Defender.

It can work too as anti-virus or firewall, bitdefender has an easy-to-use and very well design, making it more customizable than kaspersky.

He is very effective against viruses and saves a log with all activity.

BitDefender uses the ICSA Labs certified scanning engines, so you can feel secure about their virus protection.It comes also with adware and spyware detectors.

BitDefender creates a small window called the “File Zone” on your desktop that indicates how many files the program has scanned in the past few minutes. You can also drag and drop files into the File Zone for an immediate scan. The program prepares a report of each completed scan so you know exactly what your files do or do not contain and you can instruct BitDefender to disinfect or remove any infected files or messages.

3. NOD32.

The interface of NOD32 is a bit confusing for newbies, but advanced technical users will like it because gives a lot of flexibility.

It is excellent at detecting viruses, and it is updated more often than other softwares, their creators claims that they detected and blocked big-gun viruses like CIH, Melissa, LoveLetter long before the competition.

NOD32 is clearly dedicated to advanced users, you can run a simple Nod32 scan or you can spend more time using the control center. Within the control center you can have access to tons of customiztion feature and differnet types of scans.

I hope this list will help you to stay clean and to feel more secure when browsing or downloading.