It is a very rare occasion that I allow my children to work on my computer or to do anything on it, simply because it is what I use for my business and I want to make sure that it is protected. It was an evening whenever they did not feel like working in the other room and I did not see the harm in allowing them to work on the computer while I was there for a short while
Actually, it took less than an hour for the problems to really begin and it wasn’t long before I begin hearing them complaining about all the pop-up windows that were showing up on my computer. I walked over to the computer, not really understanding exactly what they were talking about and I was shocked at what I saw. There were so many pop-up windows that I could not even see the actual windows that were underneath them. This was very frustrating because I am always so careful with the things that I download to this computer.
The culprit seems to be a screensaver that was being downloaded from the Internet and they were transferring it from my computer to their laptop through the network. This typically would not have been a problem, but a small spyware program was installed in the process and that is where the problems really began. If it was only the one piece of spyware that was installed, that would have been bad enough but it turns out it was only the beginning of my trouble.
Once the spyware have a hold on my computer, it started to open doors through the network to allow other pieces of spyware to come on board. Not only was spyware coming on to my computer, that were actually several viruses that also came on which made some of my programs inoperable. It was one of the most frustrating things that I had ever gone through with my computer, and I started to look for a way to correct it.
The first thing that I did was to go to an anti-spyware site and download the free scanner that was available. It took a little while for this to happen, simply because my computer was so inundated with spyware that it was taking up most of the system resources. After the initial scan, I found out that in that short period of time I had downloaded over 300 different pieces of spyware and they were all wreaking havoc all my computer at the same time.
Now that I knew what all needed to be done with my computer, I simply allow the anti-spyware program to do its job and to begin cleaning the computer from the problems that were occurring. It took a little while for it to clean up some of the nastier pieces of spyware that were on my computer, but it did a very thorough job. After I restarted the computer, all the pop-ups were gone and I was no longer having any problems.
There is not a problem on my computer any longer with spyware, mainly because the anti-spyware program that I decided to download also had a feature of running in the background in order to protect me from future problems. Although I am still cautious about the things I do on my computer, I don’t worry so much because this program is able to take care of them for me.