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Do you know? The free program or application that you just downloaded from internet may have Trojan Horse, Spyware or Key Logger hidden inside. This may seriously affect you. Your secrets may be stolen. Every computer and Inernet user should be aware of these enemies and how to tackle them. Let us see what these enemies do and how you can remove them.

1. On the exterior the program which hides the ‘Trojan Horse’ may look very normal. But the enemy is hiding inside. Whichever task this enemy is assigned, it will carry out at the right time very efficiently.
2. Spyware will monitor your and report your activities to its owner. Which websites you frequently visit, on which websites you spend long time, which keywords you use to search are some of your secrets that the Spyware will gather and send to its owner.
3. If you use Webmail to read you email, some Spywares can read and send the whole content of the email to its owner.
4. Keyloggers are those programs that can capture the key board strokes that you type such as your login name, password, credit card details etc and then send it to its owner. Generally, computers in Cyber Cafe are infected with these key loggers. So avoid using confidential data while you are in foreign countries and using the browsing center.
5. Scumware are programs that change the text in the websites or change the web pages actions. If you own your own website then you may need to be aware of this. If not just ignore Scumware.
6. Browser helper Objects, are applications that are designed to help the browser. But these applications may also cause problems. Details such as the websites you visit, the software you download will be sent to the owners.

Some free programs that you download may contain ‘Adware’. These are advertising programs and you will be tired of seeing these advertisements pop ups every now and then.

Now how to get rid of these enemies. There are many programs to remove Spyware. Some are free and some you have to buy. Some Spywares actually disguise themselves as sypware removers, so beware in choosing the right spyware remover.

Here are some tips to choose Spyware Remover, detect Adware, keyloggers, Trojon horses, Scumware etc and remove them.

1. Lavasoft’s AdAware is the most popular in Adware removal programs. This free Adware remover (AdAware) is available at www.lavasoft.com . Once you download and install AdAware, it will scan you hard drive, floppy drive and even registries and detect Spyware programs and help to remove them.
2. The free ‘Spybot Search & Destroy‘ software is used to detect Spyware, keylogger, Browser helper objects in your computer. Spybot search & destroy can be downloaded at http://security.kolla.de . The additional feature in this software is the ‘File Shredder’. If you want a particular file to be destroyed totally and should not be recovered at all means then you can use this ‘File Shredder’ feature.
3. Another free Spyware remover is, ‘Spyware Blaster‘. You can download Spyware Blaster from www.wildersecurity.com/spywareblaster.html . The Spyware Blaster is capable of identifying Spyware hidden in Actice X controls and remove them. The Spyware Blaster also makes changes in the windows registry so that the removed spywares cannot be re installed in your computer.
4. BHO Demon is a free software that can detect and remove Browser Helper Objects. You can downlad BHO demon software from http://www.definitivesolutions.com