Peter T. Harkin asked:


I have a buddy who is completely obsessed with identity theft. He thinks that even showing his driver’s license to someone will open the doors to his entire financial world to an outside party. But, he doesn’t think twice about clicking on an ad online, or downloading freeware or shareware. He downloads movies from pirate sites and doesn’t worry about opening an .exe file. What he doesn’t realize is that he is putting is identity at considerably more risk by his online activities than by what he does in the “real world”. Without some kind of anti spyware remover, all of his data is at risk every time he does one of these high-risk activities online.

We all know that we shouldn’t give out our Social Security number, and we should keep as much personal data as possible secure, but almost all of what we do online is open for everyone to see with the use of spyware. Without an anti spyware remover, with just the click of a button, someone could have access to your user names, passwords, bank accounts, social media pages, and more - and your identity could be immediately stolen, not to mention that they could change your passwords, denying you access to your own information.

Most people think that spyware attacks only come from “dangerous sites”, such as adult sites or pirate sites, but that isn’t necessarily true. If you download torrents or use P2P programs such as Limewire, your computer is open to the public, 24 hours a day. Anyone can download spyware to you or attach it to a file that you are downloading. Without some type of anti spyware remover, you will never know that the attack is under way and by the time you realize that it is running in your system tray, it will be too late to do anything about it.

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