Once Installed, what does spyware do?

Once installed, what does spyware do?

To begin with, the "Trojan" species of spyware can log all the keys you pressed on your keyboard along with the window or page you used, carefully filing away each page's URL in different cyber-slots - especially the ones where you are keying in passwords, credit card numbers, etc. Then your entire screens may get "captured" and stored and forwarded - so what your eyes are seeing can also be seen by spyware controllers. There are others that alter your Web browser's home page or search page. Even if you change these settings back to the original restarted you machine as soon as you start surfing again, you find the settings have changed back again! The "adware" strain of this nuisance, besides collecting your passwords also collects your email address list, your web-browsing history, your online buying habits, perhaps your credit card numbers too, your machine's hardware and software configuration, and even your name, date of birth, and sex as well!

The Collector.

The spyware collects all this information day after day, it does not just get it once and then leaves you alone, oh no! After a collection it unashamedly hogs your CPU and memory, latches on to your bandwidth to connect to the internet in the background, connects quietly to the site of its master and dumps all your information in their data banks. You just think your connection is a bit slow today.

Are you infected?

If your computer has been accessing the internet unprotected, you are most likely infected. Spyware has surpassed viruses as the #1 threat to identity theft and without protection, your internet activities are never private.

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