Spybot S&D and CCleaner

Adware and Spyware are two terms that I am sure you have heard of before. Adware is software with advertising functions integrated into or bundled with a program. It is usually seen by the programmer as a way to recover programming development costs, and in some cases it may allow the program to be provided to the user free of charge or at a reduced price. The advertising income may allow or motivate the programmer to continue to write, maintain and upgrade the software product. Spyware is computer software that is installed surreptitiously on a personal computer to intercept or take partial control over the user's interaction with the computer, without the user's informed consent.
Spyware is the more dangerous of the two. Adware is more of a way for the creator of software to make money from his work, whereas spyware is a way for the creator of a program to steal information of some sort from the user. Spyware might be completely harmless and just want to know information on what sites are most visited in order to advertise better, however, this is violation of privacy.
The most common ways for your computer to get spyware and adware is by downloading a program which contains them. A lot of peer to peer programs will contain these as well as some other seemingly harmless programs such as WeatherBug. In order to check my computer I used Spybot Search & Destroy. And in order to clear my computer's history of me I used CCleaner.

Spybot Running it's search


Spybot found 2 different types of spyware. I am not suprised because i have downloaded a few programs that seemed a little fishy.


CCleaner after it has finished.


After running CCleaner once, the second time around deletes alot less files.