Re: spyware
Can't believe you could ask such a base question, if you own and operate a computer. As noted above, spam is one of many things that is a by-product of spyware.
The term spyware is all encompassing to include as many as 2,000 different trojans out there that collect info from your computers personal files and can auto dial it back to the home machine. All without your knowledge.
Then lets just look at one of these 2,000 trojans, the dreaded " WebHancer" which brazenly downloads and installs itself unseen with lots of popular software, EG= Audio Galaxy, Audio plugs , etc. This trojan has and will totally destroy the Winsock32.dll, rendering your machine totally useless in connecting to the internet. You will connect to your ISP, see the modem lights blink and be connected to the ISP, but not thru connected to the internet. NO Throughput. This has caused untold misery to probally millions who didn't know how to deal with it, and the procedure to rebuild the winsock 32.dll is not at all a pleasant task.
Volumes could be written about the dangers of spyware and already have.
Then the FBI has it's own spy trojan -"Magic Lantern", which steathly gathers the info it is seeking on whomever, this info will surely be shared with other countries.
Firewalls exist to deal with trojans - ZoneAlarm, Tiny etc, scanners exist to remove them, AdAware, ANTS etc.
As Ann Landers says, " time to wake up and smell the coffee ".
Do some research on spy trojans and then post back to us on it .
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