The End of Spyware?

The US House of Representatives has recently passed the Spy Act - or to give it its full title - the Securely Protect Yourself Against Cyber Trespass Act. This aims to prevent software companies from installing spyware on users PCs without their knowledge, and anyone found guilty of breaching the act faces a fine of up to $3 million. Does this mean the end of spyware as we know it? Unfortunately...

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Corporate Spyware Fight

Mitch Johnson

Companies have begun to take a stance against spyware by implementing spyware tools across their entire network. In the recent past Infoworks Technology and Unisys developed a partnership when Infoworks announced they would be providing their SpyRemover software for the entire Unisys use enterprise.

The company chose to make a move into spyware prevention because of spyware's prevalent threats to personal and business internet uses. Employees have become active on the internet, leaving the enterprise's computer network vulnerable to spyware infection.

For businesses spyware infection can cause negative impacts in several ways, such as slowing computers thus decreasing employee productivity. More serious problems can occur when security codes are breeched and corporate information is exposed. Infoworks' SpyRemover software is designed to detect and fix problems including spyware, hijackers, adware, keyloggers, Trojans, tracking devices and other hacker tools. The programs has been successfully used on personal and business computers.

With spyware infesting any computer, personal or network, the speed and bandwidth capabilities will continuously degrade until the problems are fixed. Unauthorized ports for information release can be created by spyware. Many spyware applications run silently and cause only gradual computer degradation which leaves you unaware of the infestation. SpyRemover scan and removes spyware infections but it helps prevent some future infections, leaving your computer safer to surf the internet on.

About the author: Mitch Johnson is a successful freelance author that writes regularly for http://www.spyware-removal-made-easy.com/ , a site that focuses exclusively on spyware removal software, as well as tips on how to prevent spyware from popping up on your computer. This site articles on has spyware guard, http://www.spyware-removal-made-easy.com/spyware_guard.htm as well as spyware scanner, http://www.spyware-removal-made-easy.com/spyware_scanner.htm


Protecting Your Computer from Adware and Spyware

Recently, while checking our company web site statistics, we noticed a number of referrals from gambling and pornography sites. Since we are certain these types of sites would not house links to us, we investigated further and determined that some of our faithful visitors may be the victims of adware or spyware. What is adware? Adware, in it's most sinister incarnation, is a program that runs on your computer (like a virus) and occassionally pops up ads or redirects your browser to websites you had not chosen to visit. What is spyware? Spyware is software that collects personal information from...

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Malware Or Spyware

Malware is a new term used to describe malicious mal software ware that has no other purpose other than to destroy or disrupt a computer. Spyware and adware are considered to be malware. There is only one reason for spyware to be put on your computer, and that's to make money, and no, not money for you. When you download those funny and comical files that your friends e mailed to you, free video or music files, free wallpaper, etc. spyware usually comes attached. The spyware industry is a billion dollar industry. There are people getting very rich selling the information they track about you...

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