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If you’re a Windows user of any stripe, you’ve probably gotten a spyware infection at one time or another. The sudden and unexpected appearance of popup windows on your screen advertising things you’d never thought of buying, or warning that your computer is under attack and that you need to download this program now, etc., are usually early warning signs. Or perhaps your antivirus program warns that you have w32.trojan.badstuff and then tells you it can do nothing about it. Or maybe you start having problems with your Internet connection or your system slows way down.

At first, you go straight to the denial stage. Just as when you feel a real cold coming on, you think you’re going to will it to go away. And you can’t imagine why you’re being attacked because you never do anything to invite bad things into your system. In fact, you’re quite careful about it. Just like avoiding that cold.

Well,for the moment, how you got it doesn’t  matter. What matters is what are you going to do about it, and how are you going to keep it from happening again. We’ll deal with that in a little bit, but first let’s have a quick lesson on what spyware is and why people do these things to nice folks like us.