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From Tony Bradley, CISSP-ISSAP, for About.com

5 Steps to Protect Yourself From Spyware

Monday December 4, 2006
Spyware has grown as a threat to computer security in recent years and remains a persistent threat today. Many types of spyware and adware are more of an annoyance than a real security threat, but there are still plenty of malicious spyware applications out there that can steal your personal and confidential information and might be used to hijack your computer or steal your identity. Follow the 5 easy steps in this short article to help protect your system from being infiltrated by spyware. Protect Yourself From Spyware.

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December 5, 2006 at 6:19 am
(1) Bandar says:

Hi,
I would like to thank you for your article.
It is really that we should do some thing logically to protect ourselves from spyware.NOT just removing it or scan the PC or maybe format it. I thing if we follow these 5 steps we will protect ourselves.

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