So why are you here at Spyware Adware Removal? As if I didn't know - If your lucky you'll just have a interest in the current scourge of the net known as spyware and the damage that it does. But more probably than not your PC is already infected and you are looking for a spyware adware removal method, basically a means of cleaning it all up. Well hopefully we can help!

Spyware is not a new concept in fact it is thought that the first users of the term were Zone Labs in a press release for the Zone Alarm Personal Firewall in 1999. The term is most commonly used to descibe a range of products that perform different functions:- unrequested advertising (pop-up's galore), information haversters, re-routers that deliberately redirect page requests to illegally claim commercial site referral fees and or pornograhic sites, and perhaps worst of all the phone dialers many of which are also pornographic.

Spyware, Adware, Malware all of these have a slightly different twist and many overlap causing even greater problems. We won't discuss there differences here as no doubt you are in a hurry to solve your own particular problem but feel free to browse the relevant section of the site for a more detailed desciption.

It is important to remember however that not all software of this nature is Spyware, not in the true sense of the word anyway. If the company producing the software fully informed you of how the software operates, the data it collects and who it shares it with, then they can hardly be accused of spying can they - problem is of course that as a rule they don't.

If you are infected don't worry, more often than not there is a cure and believe it or not you are in good company, in fact it has been estimated by the National Cyber-Security Alliance, that spyware has affected 90% of home PCs at some point.