My Spyware Story
I spend about an hour or two a day on the internet. I have this website which I am developing, and the rest of the time trying to educate myself in various aspects of internet marketing or just surfing.
I always thought that I was well protected from intrusions – running active anti-virus, anti-spyware and firewall software on my computer. Nothing however was further from the truth. The other day without warning my whole system crashed!
My screen went blue, I kept getting a flashing message telling me that my computer had been infected and prompting me to go to a download site to obtain the latest anti-spyware solution. Naturally I didn’t do that. The first thing that I did was pull the plug on my internet connection, then run my anti-spyware software.
What happened next was really suprising. My software detected some 15 different spyware items but it could not delete them.
What to do? I rang my local technician who had built my system: “Restart your system in safe mode and run your spyware software again”. Still no good. “What are you using”, I told him, “Well that’s your problem, you need to be using the best software” – what do you recommend, I asked, “COUNTERSPY” he replied, “it’s the best and what I would use to clean up your system if you brought it in”.
Or in my case what I didn’t pay for. I now know the downside of running free software. It just is not as good as the ones that you buy. Don’t make the same mistake that I did, thinking that the free software that you download from the net will protect you, it won’t. Sooner or later, or maybe your system is already infected and you just don’t know it.
So if you have a spyware problem, or more to the point, if you never want to have a spyware problem, spend twenty dollars and get CounterSpy , it is very inexpensive insurance. I recommend it to you.
Author: Opalex – see the whole artcile plus more at: http://spyware.cybersprout.com