Yes they can be, or rather they are two of the most venerable tools used to rip you off your personal details.
What is spyware?
Spyware is a program that is installed stealthily in your computer when you visit a website or download a pirated application, e-book, songs, movie, and other things. It also gets installed to your system when you download from illegal torrents or any other peer to peer (P2P) sharing services. The purpose of this program is to send your user names, passwords, personal information, and credit card information, etc., to the person who has installed spyware in your system.
This program works beneath the radar, and if you do not have adequate protection, it can cause havoc. The havoc is eternally an aftereffect, as you do not know about its existence when it operates. This program sends details of every key that you flatten.
Ok. But what is malware?
Malware is another program designed to allow a hacker entry into your system by opening different ports in your computer. It opens backdoors (not one but several) into your system, which hackers exploits to embezzle your precious data from your system. Hackers even use your system which they hacked using their malicious software (malware) to hack other’s system and their identity.
Malwares are little programs that come imbedded in the pirated stuffs that we download off the internet using whatever means. These stuffs are designed to ensnare advantage of you. In other words, you are made to trade your personal details for pirated stuffs that you get for free.
Where it come from?
It would be wrong to say that these little monsters install themselves just from the websites dealing in pirated stuffs. Pornography sites also infect your system. These sites are the biggest source of spyware and malware infection.
Where is the safe heaven?
A website that has https prefix, i.e., the website that runs on fixed server do not spread any such threat as these websites are constantly scanned by SSL proving company, typically VeriSign.
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