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Article: Virus control: dodging spyware infections: just when you think it's safe to surf in the digital waters again, a new threat emerges.(technology)
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- Franchising World
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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Lately, we've received a good number of calls to our Technical Support Center hotline with people reporting poor or sluggish performance when surfing the Internet. "What's going on," they exclaim, "I haven't changed a thing?" Enter the well-disguised and very popular "spyware." Kiss good Web performance goodbye.
Spyware is what is now known as malicious software that hides on your computer and sends information about you, your PC, or your Web-surfing habits to someone else on the Internet. Spyware takes many forms. It can be a program that starts over whenever you re-start your computer, Web "bugs" that invisibly track your clicks, or even code that takes over ...