Does your computer run much slower than you when you first got it?

Are programs taking too long to load?

If your answer to any of these questions is YES, then you probably have some kind of bug in your system.

Your computer slowing down isn’t a natural degradation of your PC, only if you fill up your hard drive should you notice a change in your computers speed.

The problem is more than likely to be parasitic software that is eating your computers resources and slowing it down. The culprits are most commonly called spyware or adware. And together these nasty programs are classified as Malware.

They do a lot more than just slow down your computer however.

There are a few telling signs that you have some sort of spyware or adware on your computer (almost all web connected computers have at least some form of it.)

• Your Computer runs much slower than it used to
• If you’ve ever downloaded music or movies off of the web from an ad filled webpage
• You often find yourself closing obnoxious popups or removing software that you don’t recall installing
• You find your default web page changed without your approval
• The websites you want to look at suddenly changes to another page you didn’t click on or want to go to?

Sound familiar?

If you think these are just expected, when in fact it is most likely due to viruses such as spyware and adware infecting the system.

Just because you often browse the internet and popups fly out of every direction doesn’t mean that it’s the website’s fault. In most circumstances (for good sites anyways) it is actually some code on your PC causing it.

Hearing the word spyware tends to evoke an image of never-ending popups for most web users.

The biggest problem with these parasites is that most users don’t know just how dangerous they can actually be. The truth is, you have way more to worry about than just those annoyances. Not only are you risking your privacy by having spyware, but you’re risking your life as you know it.

That last statement may seem a bit drastic, but it isn’t.

What spyware is really capable of is a very scary notion for your security and safety online.

Not only can it track every website that you visit, but it can track the information that you provide to said site. If you go to your online banking account and enter your information, spyware has the ability to transmit all of your bank information back to its creator.

It doesn’t stop there either. More often than not, once this information is transmitted to the spyware’s author, they then sell it to hundreds or thousands of individuals. That means your bank information, social security number, and charge card numbers could be sitting in hundreds of people’s emails.

That is how identity theft really happens.

Spyware and adware are beatable.

There are free tools that will help you get rid of it. In order to keep your privacy on the internet, you’ll need to rid yourself of any spyware and adware that is on your computer.

There are so many tools these days that say they get rid of spyware and adware that you just don’t know which ones to trust.  I have spent ears searching and testig the right programs that remove the malware, spyware, adware from your computers for free if you do it yourself. Or you can have me do it for a low cost, see Computer Repair to find out more.

So don’t wait for you to have your computer break down from bugs and spyware, clean it out before it’s too late!