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With a thesis on money laundering, a certain law student frequently used Google to find her online references. This easy tool was extremely useful to the student in her writing process. A couple months after beginning her project, the student became distressed to discover that her trusty search engine began leading her to a web page unrelated to money laundering.

Because the problem refused to go away, the law student could no longer cling to the hope that it was simply a problem with Google or the internet and had to reluctantly acknowledge that her computer had been bugged. Defending ourselves from bugs that are human in nature is an easy task. Unfortunately, the student had the misfortune of being infected with adware and spyware, which are far harder to get rid of than human annoyances. The student does not have advanced technology training and like most average students, she uses her laptop only for basic research and the writing of her papers.

Each year, spyware and adware become the root of many stories just like that of the law school student, who face harmful computer bugs caused by spyware and adware. Though it did not gain popularity until 2000, the term 'spyware' was first introduced in 1995. This is a computer software program or script innocently infiltrated onto a personal computer to be able to access personal information of the user.

This can be done through studying keystrokes, logging web browsing activities, and perhaps most worrying of all, the contents stored on a user's hard drive. Though spyware employs the kind of methodology that sounds like it came out of a James Bond movie, anyone can be a victim. Calling people affected by these attacks victims is accurate, as no one wishes to have their online activities monitored. Spyware can understandably be used to spy on criminals because such use is beneficial to society but how about the use of this type of program to intercept credit card details and the like' Using spyware to spy on criminals might be beneficial to society, but using this program to steal credit card information is criminal in and of itself. Including good anti-spyware programs on your computer system only makes sense.

As protection measures, ordinary people can block spyware and similar programs, such as adware and malware. Helping in these tasks are the many blocker programs designed for adware and spyware. Though they are not self replicating like viruses or worms, spyware, adware, and malware can be equally annoying to computer users who do not like their interferences with their daily routines. After being infiltrated, computers typically experience a noticeable decline in their speed. Unfortunately for many computer owners, spyware programs can and do hide on their systems, causing havoc while being undetectable as the root of the problem. Blockers keep the computer safe from invasion and the personal information private.