Lately, spam has taken a back seat to Ad Ware. What is Ad Ware and Spyware? Spyware and Adware is software made by publishers that allow them to snoop on your browsing activity, invade your privacy, and flood you with those horrible popups. If you are like most users on the internet, chances are you are probably infected with these applications. Unfortunately, most novice users don't know how to remove these pesky softwares. I've compiled a list of the software I recommend that can help you rid your computer of Ad Ware and Spyware.
While these programs are free, Ad-Aware has a professional version which does real-time monitoring - sort of like most firewall software. The free version is sufficient, but the professional version has some great tools that make it worth the upgrade price.
Ad-Aware
Spybot
HijackThis
These three are consistently the best reviewed in their categories, Spybot being the most prevalent. HijackThis uses a slightly different approach than Ad-Aware and Spybot. HijackThis scans your hard drives and registry for commonly used attack methods - not specific URLs and registry entrys like the other two. I would recommend loading all three. Several articles I have read indicate that Spybot and Ad-Aware will detect some entries the other doesn't.
More information and reviews can be obtained by reading:
CNET Spyware Reviews
Spybot Overview
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