“If you browse the Internet or download music or any other files, your computer will be infected with Adware or Spyware.”

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Simply put, ‘adware‘ is any piece of software from advertising mediums on the Internet (banners ads etc) which are displayed while you are browsing. The programmers from these pieces of software include additional code that delivers the ad and can be viewed through pop-up windows or through a bar that appears on your monitor.

Justification by the authors and users for the inclusion of adware is that it supposedly helps recover development cost as well as keeping the cost for the user down. However this code is known to be both harmful for security and disadvantageous for your PC’s performance.

These practices have been criticized as adware usually includes code that tracks a user’s personal information, then passes it on to a third party, without the user’s authorization or knowledge. This practice has been dubbed ‘spyware’ and are actually legal.

Steve Gibson of Gibson Research and a privacy software expert explains: “Spyware is any software that employs a user’s Internet connection in the background (or ‘backchannel’) without their knowledge or explicit permission.“

If you’re computer is running slowly, it has random ads showing or acting strangely like changing your homepage without your permission – your PC is infected. Even if your computer doesn’t have these symptoms and you surf the World Wide Web, you should protect yourself from malware infection.

A number of software applications are available to track down and delete harmful adware from your computers hard drive. One of the most popular is on the image link below. Click the ‘scan your PC for free’ image to get a free adware, spyware, dialer, worm and trojan scan to clean your computer from malware and boost its performance at the same time.