A student at the school was working on a thesis on money laundering. Much of the information I needed came from a real Google search. After several months, he was having a problem. Every time he typed the word money laundering into the Google search box, he was directed to all sorts of strange places that weren’t related to the search term at all.

At first, you thought there was something wrong with the internet system you were using or with the search engine. But as time passed, she began to think about the possibilities that maybe someone would bother her. She was right! Someone was bothering her and she solved the problem by downloading a spyware blocker.

This previous situation is not an isolated case. It happens to a lot of people. There are two words to describe it: adware and spyware.

Description of adware and spyware:

Adware is a legitimate form of freeware. Like spyware, adware is adware that is packaged in software or program and automatically installed once that particular program or software is added to the computer system. Some forms of adware, on the other hand, download advertising content as a particular application is used. It is quite unfortunate that most adware takes the form of spyware, that is, it tracks and reports user information to the program’s authors.

Spyware is software that creates paths to your computer, which means that in addition to the owner of the computer (you), someone else can communicate with your computer.
What spyware can do to harm your computer is:

* record your keystrokes

* scan your hard drive

* cookie search, web browser settings and much more information that you do not want to share.

Understandably, spyware can be used to spy on criminals because such use is beneficial to society, but how about using spyware to intercept credit card data and the like?

So what can we do to protect ourselves?

Well, there are programs that block spyware and all other similar software such as adware and malware. This can be easily done using online adware and spyware blocking programs. The role of these blocking programs includes removing or disabling existing spyware or preventing the installation of these malicious software on your computer.

The difference between this type of program and viruses and worms is that they cannot replicate themselves like viruses and worms can. Still, they can be just as complicated. One of the biggest problems they are causing is slowing down your computer a lot. This is usually the first sign that your computer has been infected and the best thing to do is to get a blocker to stop and remove these goodies.