You might have received all those cool pop-up advertisement, screensavers stuff in your computer. Cool isnt it? Well, it might be cool to have that stuff downloaded and installed in your computer but youd better be careful there. That stuff could be one of the many spyware.
What really is spyware? Any malicious software that is designed to covertly gather users personal information or intercepts the computers operation without the users consent is called spyware. There are misconceptions between spyware and adware. Adware is the term used to refer to any software which displays advertisement with or without users consent. [...]

Have you ever had the experience of finding programs installed in your computer without your knowledge?
What about being annoyed by numerous popup advertisements?
How about your start page or home page changing all the time?
What about your search results suddenly changing or your computer dialing out?
Chances are you have been a victim of spyware, hijackers, adware, dialers, or keyloggers.
Terms Defined
Lets take a look at some of these computer menaces.
Spyware This is an infectious program installed surreptitiously in the computer system and supplies the software writer or the website which installed it confidential information about the user, may it be the [...]

The term “spyware” used to refer to various equipment used by people in espionage work. This included tiny cameras, grappling guns, and other gadgets. During early 2000, the development of computer technology has caused different changes in the meaning of words. This gave way to a whole new meaning for the term “spyware”. How exactly did “spyware” come to mean what it means today?
The story goes that a man named Steve Gibson discovered one day that certain types of advertising software have been installed in his computer system without his knowledge or consent. He claimed that these software collected personal [...]