If you believe that your computer is infected with what is known in the IT industry as "malware" (malicious software such as spyware and adware), then there are a few checkups you can do to support this theory. The software must have come from somewhere, right?
And yes you guessed it: like the feared worms and viruses of cyberspace, malware too originates from the World Wide Web. Also there is a minute possibility that the malware was moved to your computer locally - i.e. via a CD-Rom or Memory Stick- but since all commercially released CDs are virus checked thoroughly, this is more likely to occur when manually moving files from an infected computer to a clean one.
Nowadays with most home users being equipped with a useful "always on" broadband connection, bypassing the need to wait a few minutes to dial up to the internet and shortening download times for large amounts of data , computers connected to the internet are always at risk from such invasions. This may all sound very daunting but there is some comfort to be found; most people will have protective firewalls which prevent an unfriendly hacker from installing software on your computer without your consent. Instead, the nasty people rely on the weakest link between the internet and your computer monitor... have you guessed it yet? Yep, it's the user.
In the majority of spyware or adware infections, the user will not realise that their actions have inadvertently caused their privacy to be leaked or intruded upon, because malware is usually hidden well and sometimes within other applications! Spammers who have acquired your email address may bombard you with links, attempting to disguise themselves as an honest and civilised individual or organisation, in the hope that you will not only click on some link they supply but also allow it to download and install nasty software onto your computer. Even some files out there on the internet which you think is the genuine article, when downloaded from unheard of sites, can pose as an innocent application such as Mozilla Firefox, and convince you to install them through this trickery. This is usually done via the filename of the file like "MozillaFirefox.exe" or by bundling the actual program with hidden functions which can be abused easily.
On the other side of the scale however, there are some programs (particularly P2P software or "Peer-to-peer" such as eDonkey) which will force you to allow adware to be installed, so that the software can be installed for free. The revenue generated by the software company from all the adverts being shown to their users covers distribution and maintenance costs for the system. This legal adware most likely cannot be removed from your computer whilst the original program it was bundled with remains intact, due to small print in the Terms and Conditions page which you accepted. Thus you will be under fire from aggressive advertising as long as you use the application.
It can be seen that malware almost always comes from a source which you have not used before, or something which you have not heard of before.
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