Does anybody know of some good spyware/adware detection and removal programs that I can download for free?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Spyware/adware Removal?
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use ad-aware. works great. and its free for home use. you can get it off www.download.com
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look for spybot-search and destroy
thats what i use. works really well.
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thats what i use. works really well.
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Ad-Aware 6 for sure.
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Don't use Windows. Best way to strop spyware. 
But I use Ad Aware on my windows machine, it works quite well.
But I use Ad Aware on my windows machine, it works quite well.
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"Spyware is the name which was given to software that - without the user of the program knowing that the software performs this kind of action - traces the user's usage of the internet and sends this information - again without the user knowing this is happening - to a computer ("Server") designated by the developer of the Spyware software.Originally posted by Kristina@Aug 31 2003, 12:21 PM
What is spyware exactly?
"By performing these actions, detailed userprofiles may be collected - without the user's knowledge and approval - which then can be used for commercial or other purposes. By gathering and sending this information both resources on the user's computer as well as bandwidth on the Internet is abusively used, not to mention the breach of privacy such a userprofile would be."
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in short, its a program that spys on you and your computer and reports it to someone.... WITHOUT YOU KNOWING (hence the word spy)
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I can't think of a better use of server resources... I really can't.
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...which is BAD! 