Remove spyware from your system

Spyware programs are malicious softwares that can

• Collect different types of personal information
• Install additional softwares
• Redirect your browser activity
• Access websites blindly that will cause more harmful viruses
• Can even change computer settings, resulting in slow connection speeds

If you are a regular internet user, and feel any of the symptoms, there is a chance to have spyware in your system. In such cases it is good to to scan your system with a spyware removal tool. Spybot - Search & Destroy is a good tool and it is free. The good thing is you can keep on updating the definitions so you can be safe from even new spyware.

Here is their official website
http://www.spybot.info/index2.html

Spybot - Search & Destroy can detect and remove spyware of different kinds from your computer. Spyware is a relatively new kind of threat that common anti-virus applications do not cover yet. If you see new toolbars in your Internet Explorer that you didn't intentionally install, if your browser crashes, or if you browser start page has changed without your knowing, you most probably have spyware. But even if you don't see anything, you may be infected, because more and more spyware is emerging that is silently tracking your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile of you that will be sold to advertisement companies. Spybot-S&D is free, so there's no harm in trying to see if something snooped into your computer, too :)

Spybot-S&D can also clean usage tracks, an interesting function if you share your computer with other users and don't want them to see what you worked on. And for professional users, it allows to fix some registry inconsistencies and offers some extended reporting features.