| FACT: If you use the Internet, there
is a good chance that your computer is hosting
spyware. There are currently over 78,000 Spyware
and Adware programs on the Internet that can
infect your PC. Here
are 9 warning signs you should be aware of, if any
of them sound familiar to you then your PC
is most likely infected:
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When you start your browser, the home page
has mysteriously changed. You change it back
manually, but before long you find that it has
changed back again. |
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You get pop-up advertisements when your
browser is not running or when your system is not
even connected to the Internet, or you get pop-up
ads that address you by name. |
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Your phone bill includes expensive calls to
Premium-rate numbers that you never made -
probably at an outrageous per-minute rate. |
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You enter a search term in Internet
Explorer's address bar and press Enter to start
the search. Instead of your usual search site, an
unfamiliar site handles the search. |
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A new item appears in your Favorites list
without your putting it there. No matter how many
times you delete it, the item always reappears
later. |
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Your system runs noticeably slower than it
did before. If you're a Windows 2000/XP user,
launching the Task Manager and clicking the
Processes tab reveals that an unfamiliar process
is using nearly 100 percent of available CPU
cycles. |
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At a time when you're not doing anything
online, the send or receive lights on your
dial-up or broadband modem blink just as wildly
as when you're downloading a file or surfing the
Web. Or the network/modem icon in your system
tray flashes rapidly even when you're not using
the connection. |
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A search toolbar or other browser toolbar
appears even though you didn't request or install
it. Your attempts to remove it fail, or it comes
back after removal. |
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And the final sign is: Everything appears to
be normal. The most devious spyware doesn't leave
traces you'd notice, so get your system scanned! |
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Contact PfX Services to find out more about
Adware and Spyware - before it's too late. |
