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Write a note on antispyware progrmaes?​

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Anti-spyware software is a type of program designed to prevent and detect unwanted spyware program installations and to remove those programs if installed. Detection may be either rules-based or based on downloaded definition files that identify currently active spyware programs.

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Answer: See explanation

Step-by-step explanation:

Spyware refers to the software that has

a malicious behavior which gathers information about an individual or organization and then sends the information gathered to another entity which is used in causing harms to the user such as the privacy violation of the user.

Antispyware programmes are also called the spyware removal tools and they're the software which are used in the detection of harmful spyware which are then removed from the system. Examples include Avira, Norton, Avast, McAfee etc.

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