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Marketing and Information
Over the last decade the Internet has
changed from being mostly a source of information into a worldwide
marketplace. Today, all sorts of people and companies are trying
to find new ways of making money online. Since information is
critical to any kind of marketing the Internet has also created a
whole new business of gathering and selling information about
possible customers. Interesting information can be anything from
your surfing habits to your hobbies, name, and e-mail.
Information Gathering Agents
One method of gathering personal
information that has become increasingly popular over the last few
years is the use of software agents bundled with many common
"freeware" programs. By downloading and installing the freeware
program, you will also install a spyware agent. The spyware can
then run in the background gathering information about anything
you do on your computer and uploading that information to a server
somewhere on the Internet. Even if the information is never used
or seen by anyone, most people feel very uncomfortable with
invisible processes uploading private information to the Internet.
Finding Invisible Processes
WinTasks 5 lists all processes running on your computer,
including invisible background processes like spyware. Since
WinTasks also assigns more user-friendly names to each process,
such as Internet Explorer instead of iexplore.exe, as well as the
full executable path, finding and terminating spyware processes is
relatively easy.
Permanently Removing
Spyware
Using WinTasks 5 Professional it is possible to prevent the spyware processes from loading the next time you reboot. To do
this, you simply open the Autostart window in WinTasks and select
the spyware executable. By disabling the spyware from this window,
it will be removed from the registry autostart sections and will
not be started the next time you reboot your system. You can
either temporarily disable the spyware, to find out whether you
have disabled the right program, or you can permanently remove it
from the registry. In WinTasks 5 Professional there are also a
number of other features like scripting and CPU usage logs that
can be used to detect and remove unwanted processes and to
increase overall system security.
Continue to WinTasks 5
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