A few weeks ago, if you’d have told me that I need to get a specialized anti-spyware program, I would have told you, “No thanks, my computer’s already protected from spyware and viruses.”
Over the years I’ve used all kinds of computers and friends would ask me what to do to solve their own computer problems. I was pretty good at it, and other people would find out and just had to ask me somthing about their computer.
I’ve always used the latest programs (I thought) to find viruses, and trojans and spyware. I’d do what everyone else does: run them to clean my computer, find a few problems, clean them, and go back to using my computer. In fact I got a system down where I’d run all my diagnostics at night, so I wouldn’t lose any time on the computer the next day.
A person would think that the protection that comes with Windows should be adequate to get rid of any problems. And if Windows couldn’t catch it, I even spent a few hundred dollars on some name-brand software that was supposed to catch any spyware. I believed that the problem was solved, as each time I ran my anti-spy programs, these programs would tell me that my computer was all “clean.”
But, gradually something was slowing down my computer.
I thought that maybe it was due to installing a lot of software on my computer. That might cause it to run slowly.
But I don’t like mysteries, and the nagging slowness was driving me crazy. For me, I was losing time and productivity, and it bothered me because I didn’t know why it was slow.
Then one day I found out what was going on, and I got back the faster computer I used to remember (and then I was frustrated because the cure was so quick and simple - I was thinking about all that time I had lost on the slow computer processing).
A friend told me about some software that would fix my computer. I tried it, and it found 36 threats that were spying on my every move (somehow all the other softwares missed these threats). It appeared that my own computer was handily giving out to strangers all kinds of information about what I was doing on the internet and possibly the personal info I had entered. I was angry that the spyware penetration was so extensive.
If you’d like to read my own story, you can click here for more information about what I did regarding this massive spyware removal that I had to do.