My Experience with Spyware on My Business Computer

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July 19, 2009

by Jack Spencer

The computer that I typically use at my house is almost always expressly used by myself for business purposes. My children have their own computer that they use in another room in the home, but this one evening they did not want to go into the other room so I decided to allow them to use my computer for a change. After all, how much harm could they possibly do in a single hour that they would be working on my computer?

They were working on the computer for approximately an hour whenever they started complaining about pop-up windows that were taking place on the computer. By the time I got over to take a look, there were so many pop-up windows from the spyware that have been downloaded that I can barely see the screen underneath the pop ups. This was frustrating to say the least, especially considering the fact that I am always cautious about downloading anything in order to keep this computer as clean as possible.

It seems that one of them was downloading some screensavers and then transferring them over to the laptop through the network. One of the screensavers came with an attachment that downloaded several pieces of spyware onto my computer, and that is where the problem really started. The problem is, it did not only stop with those few pieces of spyware and it just continued to grow over the next few hours.

Once the spyware have a hold on my computer, it started to open doors through the network to allow other pieces of spyware to come on board. Not only was spyware coming on to my computer, that were actually several viruses that also came on which made some of my programs inoperable. It was one of the most frustrating things that I had ever gone through with my computer, and I started to look for a way to correct it.

One of the first things I did was to look for a way to clean the spyware, and I found an anti-spyware program which looked to be pretty good. Fortunately, I was able to download the scanner without a price and it took a look at my computer and told me exactly what was going on with it. The initial scan took a little while to do because all of the system resources were being used up by the spyware and as it turns out, there were well over 300 different spyware programs that were running on my computer.

After finding out that there were so many problems on my computer, I simply decided to allow it to run and to take care of the problem for me. This also took a little while, especially because some of the nastier pieces of spyware are very difficult to clean automatically. I crossed my fingers whenever the restart began and as my computer started up again, all of the pop-up windows had gone away and there were no longer problems that I was dealing with.

There is not a problem on my computer any longer with spyware, mainly because the anti-spyware program that I decided to download also had a feature of running in the background in order to protect me from future problems. Although I am still cautious about the things I do on my computer, I don’t worry so much because this program is able to take care of them for me.

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