Security Awareness Training

111 - Dealing with Spyware

Spyware has become a very real problem - both at work and for home users. Spyware can slow down computer performance, generate annoying pop-up windows, send confidential information to hackers or even make a computer unbootable.

This course will help students to understand what Spyware is, where it comes from, how to avoid it and how to combat it. It covers:

• What is Spyware?
• Cookies, adware and malicious Spyware.
• Are cookies Spyware?
• 4 ways you might get Spyware.
• Spyware and antivirus software.
• 2 important rules for avoiding Spyware.
• Spotting if you've been infected.
• Scanning for Spyware.
• Getting rid of Spyware.