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Is someone monitoring your Internet activities?
In general,
spyware is any technology that aids in gathering information about a person
or organization without their knowledge. On the Internet, spyware is programming
that is put in someone's computer to secretly gather information about
the user and relay it to advertisers or other interested parties. Spyware
can get in a computer as a software virus or as the result of installing
a new program. Data collecting programs that are installed with the user's
knowledge are not, properly speaking, spyware, if the user fully understands
what data is being collected and with whom it is being shared.1
There are
several programs available to remove spyware. Below is a list of programs
available and their payment category.
Cumberland
University makes no endorsement of the above or other spyware removal
products. This information is simply intended to provide CU students with
information to help protect their computers from unwanted tracking programs
and other devices.
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Spyware definition from WhatIs.com
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