F-Secure Anti-Spyware protects your privacy by removing secretly installed data tracking software from your computer. The software is based on the Ad-Aware technology from Lavasoft.
Most people are familiar with freeware, shareware, cookies, media players, interactive content, and file sharing. What they may not realize is that some of the aforementioned may contain code or components that allow the developers of these applications and tools to actually collect and disseminate information about those using them.
They can track your surfing habits, abuse your Internet connection by sending this data to a third party, profile your shopping preferences, hijack your browser start page or pages, alter important system files, and can do this without your knowledge or permission. The security and privacy implications of these exploits should be quite obvious and undesirable on any system or network!
F-Secure Anti-Spyware protects your privacy and removes these data tracking components from your personal computer. |