App Spy Software : What Is App Spy Software?

App Spy is commercial monitoring software, which can be misused to spy on people. It is therefore recognized as a spyware, although not tracked by most antivirus softwares as it is commercial. By utilizing App Spy, a person can retrieve vital information from your computer such as passwords, credit card number and even keep a track of each alphabet, which is being tracked through a keylogger.

App Spy must treated as an invasion of your privacy and therefore be considered as a spyware. The best way to remove App Spy is to utilize a good anti-spyware program, as most popular anti-spyware programs can easily detect and remove the App Spy spyware.

Manual removal of the App Spy spyware is slightly more complex and mainly involves the removal of appspy.dll, which is a file associated with the malware. In general, the steps involve the prior removal of the entries of appspy.dll in the registry. This is done utilizing Start>Run and entering “regedit” as the command. Using Regedit, you must search and destroy all entries of “appspy.dll” in the Windows registry. Search for the entries and remove them.

End the active appspy.dll using the Task Manager, and finally remove the files by searching for appspy.dll and deleting the files found. Keep in mind that it could be using stealth and so the files might not be visible to you. You must change the folder options to show hidden files. It is best to run a scan using good antispyware software just to make sure that everything is ok.