Friday, December 15, 2006

Getting rid of spyware, adware, malware, etc.



We'd strongly recommend 'SpyBot' 'SpySweeper' and 'AdAware', which as of this writing, are free as well, although 'AdAware' and 'SpySweeper' also have 'upgraded' paid versions.

Highly recommended SpyBot, as it is absolutely free and does the job .

All are very good programs for eliminating what is known as 'spyware', and should be used together.

Spyware is generally used to gather surfing habits and in some cases even used to extract your e-mail address(es). It is also used used to send marketing information directly to spammers, from which these spammers spam you.

I.E., if you visit a website for a particular item, and have spyware installed, you may all of the sudden notice an increase in spam that you receive for that type of good.

It makes good sense to keep these type of programs up to date with the latest definitions.

Use Mailwasher to stop unwanted spam email

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