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Educating Your Kids About Spyware and the Steps to Prevent It From Happening

Overview If one starts to get tons of pop-up windows even when not connected to the net and the computer has slowed to a crawl, one might have spyware. One knows that he or she has not downloaded anything lately and has a great anti-virus program. Well, if the kids have been at the PC, there is a good chance that is how one got it. Spyware is software that can get into the machine while visiting not so safe web sites or through downloading programs from an unknown source. This paper will explains how to educate the kids about Spyware and the Steps to prevent it from Happening.

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Publisher	LT International	File Format	HTML
Date Published	June 2006
Format	White Papers
Topics	Network Security, Anti-Virus, Spyware

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