How do Spyware work

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Work Principle

If you haven't already taken any measures in to protecting your privacy and download 'free' programs from the Internet, it's very likely as your reading this right now, there is some hidden program on your PC (Spyware, browser hijacker or other) which could do doing anything like monitoring every page you visit using your browser and then sending it to a company for advertising purposes. Some of these malware programs are even more intrusive and log your keystrokes (keyloggers) and send it to a remote location, hence can potentially reveal your passwords, private emails, credit card information, and documents etc.

Sometimes, especially if you are downloading things from questionable sources like peer-to-peer networks, you can get more malicious spyware. These include keystroke loggers, which can record everything you type (as in bank account numbers, credit card numbers, and much more) and Trojan horses that can allow hackers access to your computer for a variety of nefarious purposes.

Thus, spyware is both a security and privacy threat that can also make your computer run slow and crash all the time... and you won't even know most of it is there (according to a recent survey, 89% of users with spyware-infected computers were not aware of the infection).


Possible Symptoms

There are several possible symptoms when a "Ghostware" attacked your computer:

·	Some characters input without your striking keyboard

·	Your mouse pointer moves on screen out of your control

·	System becomes very slow

·	Other people know your password or other private information

·	Your password is changed without notice

·	You lose some files you did not delete

·	A program disappears after you run it (this program file might be a Trojan)

But, there are some ghostware infected your computer without any visible symptoms, while you can use Antiy Ghostbusters to detect and clean them.