Spyware. It sounds nasty... and it is. Spyware grabs your information and at its best, creates a marketing profile that is then sold to advertisers. At its worst, it can capture login and password information from your online accounts and this information is sold. See a pattern developing? It's all about the money. Spybot Search and Destroy helps to keep your computer free of this online threat. Fair to say, no computer should be without it.

As you travel the Internet you hear talk about "

cookies

." Some sources imply that cookies are bad. That they're

software that spies on you

. Here we're going to tell you what a "cookie" really is and what it does!

While Mac's don't have the problem with spyware and viruses that PC's do, it still never hurts to be cautious. Being cautious means you're
safer than you would be if you did nothing. We found a program called
MacScan that works really well and keeps the Mac free of spyware and tracking cookies.