What is Spyware?

Spyware applications are programs and files that hide on your PC's hard drive without your direct knowledge. These programs allow hackers and advertising companies to track your every move, both online and even when you work offline. Adware applications are installed onto your PCs hard drive by Internet advertising companies that allow them to inundate you with pop-up ad after pop-up ad all day long. These program can place icons almost anywhere on your PC, they can change your home page whenever they wish, and they control your google search results so you see the results that they want you to see.
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Greetings all I am the sole writer, designer, and webmaster (at this point) in a small start up game design company called Sword & Sigil Game design. We have just released our first offering to the world of paper and dice Tabletop RPG's called APOCalypse 2500. Being an internet entrepreneur I have been exposed to may attempts to defraud my various enterprises of anything from bandwidth to real cash money. I have made it my business to become well versed over the years in the various methods and scams used by cyber-criminals

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