Guest Author - Debbie Jacobsen

Identity theft is one of the fastest growing crimes in the world today, mainly due to the internet. Thieves have become very sophisticated and their tool of choice these days is spyware. It is a widely known fact that around 80% of computers on the internet are not protected against spyware, leaving billions of computers wide open for infection.

Spyware is designed to secretly install on your computer through tainted files that are downloaded freely, by clicking on certain hyperlinks, and sometimes just by visiting certain websites. You usually never know you have spyware on your PC until it’s too late, because it shows no symptoms. Anti-virus software will not find and destroy most spyware, because spyware is not a virus.

The only way to tell if your computer is infected with spyware is to use an anti-spyware program. Several companies have built pretty good antispyware software into their internet security suites, but none of these programs will detect and kill every type of spyware there is. For the absolute best protection against dangerous spyware, you should use a standalone anti spyware product like SpyCop.

Spycop does one thing and one thing only – it detects and eliminates spyware on your PC. It will not kill viruses and it will not get rid of adware, it is only concerned with spyware. Spy Cop is one of the best antispyware products in the world, with the largest database of spyware definitions in the world. Spycop is often tested against all the major anti-spyware products, and it is consistently able to find a much higher percentage of spyware than competitor products.

SpyCop is super easy to install and use, and has one of the simplest user interfaces I’ve seen. Unlike a lot of anti-spyware programs that seem to drag your computer down to a crawl, SpyCop is not extremely resource-intensive.

By default, SpyCop’s mode of operation is for manual security scanning. You can turn on the “super stealth”, always-on background scanning if you wish. I like this, because I use SpyCop as a secondary spyware scanner, to double-check the scanner that comes with my internet security suite (because I’m super cautious when it comes to spyware and possible identity theft).

Spy Cop automatically updates its database so you never have to worry about having out of date protection. It finds keyloggers, screen recorders, URL recorders, chat monitors and more – and it automatically disables them so that they cannot transmit your personal information. Spycop scans every single file on your PC for instances of spyware and it can even find tricky spy programs that rename themselves.

Spycop costs $49.95, which isn’t cheap - but you get what you pay for. If you do any online shopping, banking, bill-paying or downloading, this program will ensure that sneaky spy programs don’t transmit your account credentials to identity thieves.

An anti-spyware program is a must for anyone using the internet these days, because without protection against dangerous spy software you are leaving yourself wide open for theft. As with all of the better antispyware programs, you can download a free trial version of Spy Cop and test it out before you purchase.


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