How To Get Rid of Spyware
If you have been surfing the net unprotected by a good firewall, anti-virus guard or spyware checker or know someone who has, then you will inevitably have to do a major housecleaning on your system. As unwanted spyware programs build up in your system they will take up valuable resources, memory and processing speed. A noticeable drop in performance is an early sign of infection. When you start getting continuous pop-up ads that are unrelated to the web site you are trying to view, then it is assured you need to doctor your computer.
Since there are a number of good anti-spyware programs available in both free and commercial forms, you would need to start treating your sick machine with some of these programs. Spybot Search and Destroy can root out most of these insidious programs and remove them automatically. Using a second high rated anti-spyware program as a double-check and to expand the way these parasite programs are searched for, will clean off a lot of potentially dangerous threats off your machine completely.
Once you have removed these rogue programs, you will want to run a good registry cleaner program to remove all trace of the spy's presence. This is important because upon reboot, some spyware will have it coded into the root of your system to go and reload the program you tried to eliminate. Abexo and CCleaner are highly recommended programs for ease in registry file maintenance.
There are a few spies, viruses and worm programs that cannot be removed and depending on your level of
need for security, a last ditch effort to save your computer and your privacy would be to back up you data and reformat the hard drive and reload a new operating system on it. It can be a time consuming task but it is less harrowing than having to regain your identity from an internet thief.
