I did not have any reason to get a spy sweeper when I first got online or so I thought. Spyware sweepers are software programs that stop malicious adware from slowing down your system. I knew that they were useful for some people, but I was pretty sure that I did not need one on my computer. After all, I very rarely visit any kind of suspicious websites. I go to mainstream news sites, check my email on the web, and read a few blogs from friends. I almost never go to any other sites.
Nonetheless, about a month ago, I found that my computer was working much more slowly. At the time, I thought that it was just my imagination, or that the internet was running a bit slow that day. I knew that my computer worked a bit better some days than others, so I just waited for the problem to clear up on its own.
Over the next week or so, the problem continued to get worse. When I would turn on my computer, it would take about twice as long as it used to before it got up and running. It would sometimes not be able to find web pages, or they would load up very slowly. Even my applications that had nothing to do with the internet, such as games and spreadsheet programs, did not seem to be working well.
On a whim, I tried out a spy sweeper. It was a program that one of my friends swore by, and so I figured it would be good. It took forever to run, but I was patient. I'm glad I waited. What the spy sweeper found shocked me. There were something like 50 separate malware programs, spyware bugs, and other problems found on the computer. Although none of them were outright viruses, all of them were slowing down my computer and exposing me to potential security problems.
What I found out when I told my friend about the spy sweeper intrigued me. Apparently, an individual spyware program does not do all that much to your computer at least in most cases. The problem is that there are so many of them, and they are so easy to catch. Once you accumulate a few, it starts to take a toll on your system speed. Get a lot of them, and your computer starts to run very slowly. It is better to stop the problem by getting a spy sweeper to begin with than to wait until it gets bad like I did.
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