ID fraud: spyware still rampant on PCs
Anti-spyware software, which like traditional antivirus software monitors your system in real time and flags up anything it recognises from its database of malicious software, easily removes these irritants, so long as you can be bothered to keep it up to date. But spyware is a misleading word. Spyware can be far more intrusive and dangerous than pop-ups tenuously related to what you’ve been looking at online. Under this umbrella term come all sorts of anti‑social programs, from adware to rootkits and keyloggers.