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Spyware is a kinda of harmful files which affects the performance of the computer and the Internet connection.They are recently existed meanings bad files made by some pirates and programmers for a special target.These files could be such a way of advertisements and also to collect some informations needed for some companies to send clients emails and fake publicity to increase the traffic and number of visitors for some pages on the Internet ,that's way give a good income for people who use spywares as long as they can get a lot of people on their pages and increase the number of display pages and clicks.

Spyware are not dangerous like worms and virus but it could be between bugs and virus in risk.The affected computer would suffer a leakage in bandwidth because they spywares need a lot of bandwidth of the traffic to display stupid advertisements and open some websites.So if someone have a fixed limited capacity of bandwidth and got a spyware that would be an annoying problem for him as long he'll spend some of it on these spywares.

Preventive spyware is easy and it's not complicated just need some hints and that's it.We have to put a firewall and increase the browser security level a little bit .By doing this the pc will be free of spywares 70% ,and for 100% efficiency an antispyware is needed beside the other mentioned things.

Now let's explain how can we prevent spywares:

1- It's important not to trust everything on the web such awards and offers which are sent to almost of users because it's full of undesired spywares .

2- Be careful when you are going to subscribe in an untrusted forum because there are a lot of forums which are made by hackers and programmers ,also be careful when you are going to click on an advertisement because almost of it are fake and spywares.

3- Increase the level of security in your browser to prevent the undesired cookies and spywares.

4- Try to empty the cookies and Internet temporary files regularly to kill any activity of such a spyware which affect your PC.

5- Put your firewall on and update it ,because firewall is a good shield against many of spywares.

6-Install on of the antispyware like Spyware Doctor and update it to prevent and clean your PC from spywares.

After these hints you are now safe and it's difficult for a spyware to attack your system.

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