To Much Spyware on My Computer
The computer that I typically use at my house is almost always expressly used by myself for business purposes. My children have their own computer that they use in another room in the home, but this one evening they did not want to go into the other room so I decided to allow them to use my computer for a change. After all, how much harm could they possibly do in a single hour that they would be working on my computer?
Actually, it took less than an hour for the problems to really begin and it wasn’t long before I begin hearing them complaining about all the pop-up windows that were showing up on my computer. I walked over to the computer, not really understanding exactly what they were talking about and I was shocked at what I saw. There were so many pop-up windows that I could not even see the actual windows that were underneath them. This was very frustrating because I am always so careful with the things that I download to this computer.
It seems that one of them was downloading some screensavers and then transferring them over to the laptop through the network. One of the screensavers came with an attachment that downloaded several pieces of spyware onto my computer, and that is where the problem really started. The problem is, it did not only stop with those few pieces of spyware and it just continued to grow over the next few hours.
Once the spyware have a hold on my computer, it started to open doors through the network to allow other pieces of spyware to come on board. Not only was spyware coming on to my computer, that were actually several viruses that also came on which made some of my programs inoperable. It was one of the most frustrating things that I had ever gone through with my computer, and I started to look for a way to correct it.
It didn’t take me long to find an anti-spyware website that allowed me to download a free scanner and find out all of the problems that were occurring on my computer. The initial scan did take quite a bit of time to run, simply because the resources were being taken up by all the spyware that existed only computer at this time. The scan showed that there were well over 300 pieces of spyware and spyware traces that were running at the same time on my computer and slowing it to a crawl.
When the scan was completed, it gave me a list of all of the different problems that had occurred and I simply allowed the anti-spyware program to begin cleaning the computer, one spyware program at a time. It did take a little bit of time, only because there were some of the most notorious spyware programs that were all my computer and they do take a bit to clean. The program required that I restarted the computer and after I did, all of the pop-ups were gone.
There is not a problem on my computer any longer with spyware, mainly because the anti-spyware program that I decided to download also had a feature of running in the background in order to protect me from future problems. Although I am still cautious about the things I do on my computer, I don’t worry so much because this program is able to take care of them for me.