I have a few questions about "spyware"...
- what is it?
-can you give some examples of spyware?
-what does it do?
-how do you know if you have it?
-can spyware upload files from my pc without my knowledge?

Over the past few days I was overwhelmed with new browser windows popping up. Was this caused by spyware? I think I got rid of everything, some of the programs were incredibly difficult to uninstall.


I am now trialling Firefox.