Have you even noticed that why some toolbars/ ad-wares/ pop-ups added to your computer, without even you knowing it that you had installed any of these? Or your search engine/ homepage is moved to a different address? This is a common problem for many internet users, most of these are just annoying, but some of them are spy-wares that tracks every sites that you are visiting and gathers all of your personal information such as Credit-card number. The average time that a computer ,without safe system, survives online is about 4 minutes, then it's in the hand of hackers and viruses. It's pretty wild out there!
- What's the cause of these problem?
- Many of these excessive applications come from unnecessary programs and or viruses and trojan back-doors. Or you had installed an application and didn't read their terms of service and/or paid attention to their "extra features".
- How Could you stop them?
- ALWAYS read the checkboxes on installation app. uncheck the boxes that are unnecessary, it's ok to cancel an side agreement, it doesn't affect your installation, even if does you can re-luanch the app, it's better than to reset your computer- especially browsers settings back to normal
- Change your homepage to something secure, like Google/Ask.com/Yahoo/Bing, every now and then check your search engine, you don't want your information transmitted to third party programs.
- delete web extension that you don't know that you have installed.
- Uninstall the applications from your commuter; it is recommended to Install Revo-Unistaller, that program doesn't just remove the base application, but it also scans all of your computer for any information and files related to your desierd application for uninstallation.
- Download safe. nothing good comes out of free[pirated] application, always ask"is it too good to be free?"
Happy Browsing!
