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How to check whether your computer is infected with adware and spyware or virus?

First how to check whether your computer is infected with these spyware and adware or virus. Most of the technicians say perform an online virus scan. But this is mainly good for virus and trojans. What about spyware detection ?

Nowadays the most common infection found on a computer are adware and spyware with a few percentage on virus and trojans. When you suspect that something is wrong with your computer, you would probably say it might be a virus infection. But let me tell you that all most all Anti virus software available now is capable of detecting almost all virus and trojans. Your Anti virus company will surely update your virus protection program to detect these virus and trojans within 24 hours after the first report of any new virus or trojans. But this not done  in the case of spyware and adware removal. 

Spyware detection is not easy using virus scan. Even the best anti virus protection software most of the times cannot detect spyware software. This is because the spyware software is installed as a program on your computer. Who installed this spyware software on your computer? Yes. I will tell you that in just a while. So when your computer behaves differently giving you a lot of pop-ups, infection found warnings, website redirection, desktop background changed,  windows settings disabled,  you suspect that your computer is infected with virus and your Anti virus program says no virus detected, then it could be Spyware or Adware infection.

Why my virus protection program did not detect Adware and Spyware ?

I have heard this question a thousand times from many customer, why spyware detection failed even though I have installed the best anti virus protection like norton anti virus software, McAfee or Avg. When you ask this question to your virus protection company, they blame you for installing the spyware software on your computer after over riding the security warning from your virus scan software.

When you install any free software (which you think is adware and spyware free), which needs connection to Internet, your virus protection program will certainly pop-ups a warning asking your permission whether to grant access or block it. You will probably grant access to this software to access Internet as you want to use the software you just installed. Now your Virus scan software will not detect any adware and spyware coming through the data sent and received by the software you just installed and that is how your virus scan software fails in spyware detection.

Now whom to blame for the adware and spyware infection. I would say 50%  on your virus protection company and 50% on you. I will explain this. Your Anti Virus company is help less or doing nothing to get rid of spyware. The worst case about spyware adware removal is that your security company will charge you to help you remove the spyware software, even though you have paid for Anti virus subscription and support. I would say they are using this situation for increasing their profit instead of providing free spyware adware removal support or helping the customers to prevent any future attack of adware and spyware.

You are wrong. How can I possibly  install Adware and Spyware on my own computer?  Am I mad?

Okay. Let me Explain this. Two of the most common ways malware such as adware and spyware gets installed on a computer is through software bundling and social Engineering. With software bundling, spyware or adware is packaged with useful software like free p2p applications (Azureus, Kazaa, etc) and video codecs ( XP Codec Pack, VideoActiveX Objects ). Often, the user is not aware of the negative aspects of the bundled software. Once these programs are added to the Program Permission lists of your virus protection software, then your anti-virus software will not block the traffic through these applications.

With social engineering, the user is tricked into installing the software. Typically, the user receives a misleading e-mail instructing them to open an attachment or visit a Web site which contains spyware or adware.

Okay. Now tell me how to get rid of spyware, Adware, Virus and Trojans for free?

Yes. When your paid Anti virus protection software fails to get rid of spyware or adware or even virus and trojans. You may use free spyware adware removal programs. There are many free special tools available to remove virus and trojans also. I will tell you how to download and run this spyware adware removal programs to get rid of Spyware and Adware.

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