Free Spyware

Free is usually a good thing. There’s fat free foods – dieters would agree that’s a good thing. How about buy one get one free specials at the supermarket? The free gift with purchase you get at the cosmetics counter of a department store? All good things.

Guess what else is free? Spyware. It’s pretty safe to say that most people would agree that spyware is a bad thing. Nobody goes out on the internet hoping to get a spyware infection. However, no spyware creator or distributor is going to put up a sign advertising free spyware on the internet. Why would they – then people would stop downloading their freeware programs or visiting their web sites. More often than not you get free spyware along with the free programs you download from the internet.

What exactly can you get with your free spyware? Some of the spyware programs that might infect your computer include:

Try a free spyware scan from Webroot Spy Sweeper and see what has been installed without your knowledge.