Browser Security News

If you have ever been bombarded with pop-up advertisements or discover that your homepage has been replaced (usually with a link to a pornography or shopping bargains’ Web site) when you click on your Internet browser, you have been hit by spyware.

For starters, spyware is not a virus but can be as abrasive as the nastiest of viruses. Essentially spyware presides over functions of your computer and track individual’s movements over the Internet.

This information is fed back to the makers of the spyware who generally target the individual with advertisements for products going by the information thus gathered.

Statistics suggest that almost 60 per cent of spyware generated is used to gather commercial-value information about the end user’s browsing habits. Spyware on the prowl, beware!