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Effects of Spyware – Invading computers to harvest private information, more than 95% of all computers are infected with spyware. Users are at the mercy of these programs that inflict annoying or even malevolent damage causing serious effects. They can,

* Install worms, viruses or Trojan horses to open back doors in computers making them vulnerable to attack by hackers causing identity theft.
* Alter and destroy important files on your computer including the very heart of your operating system.
* Turn a computer into a zombie commandeered by spammers for the purpose of sending out massive amounts of spam.
* Monitor internet surfing habits to install "keystroke loggers" to record and report on every keystroke including passwords and credit card numbers.
* Change homepages or adding bookmarks not required by users for adware or pop-ups.
Spyware is any program that installs itself in a computer system with or without consent to gather information for its programmers. Spying insidiously on unsuspecting computer users, the program watches what users do on computers to send the information over the internet.
It can come with legitimate-looking software to get installed and remain in place even after removal of the software. It can also come with a virus or a worm to get integrated along with them to collect different types of information there are benign and malicious Spyware.
Be careful guys. wahmbulance wahmbulance wahmbulance wahmbulance

dude i got the trojan horse virus before and its so frigin annoying yo. i would always try to get on my computer and there was always this one file that opened more than one time and i couldnt do anything but watch it come up i wanted to rip the friggin computer out of the friggin wall but then i wouldve been punished and grounded for life for costing my family to get another one... um getting rid of shtuff like that is hard...and costly especially when you think you can fix it by installing this anti-virus software which is atcually in turn another friggin virus and then you mess things up more. all you really can do is say no to uploading or like downloading unknown software ya know. i know i got like a couple viruses on my comp as we speak... stressed hackers suck a** unless...well its never really for a good cause...