Featured Antispyware
Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition 1.06
- 2005-08-19
With the ability to scan your RAM, registry, hard drives, and external storage devices for known data-mining, advertising, and tracking components, Ad-aware SE easily can clean your system, allowing you to maintain a higher degree of privacy while you surf the Web.
Ad-aware SE Personal Edition boasts a number of improvements. Extended memory scanning now scans all modules loaded by a process. Scanning uses the all- new CSI (Code Sequence Identification) technology to identify new and unknown variants of known targets. Extended registry scanning now scans registry branches of multiple-user accounts and performs additional smart checks to detect dynamically created references. Scanning speed is noticeably faster, and this version offers an Extended Scanning mode for known and unknown/possible browser hijackers.
New in version 1.06: Disk-scan is approximately 30% faster. CSI scan is now more efficient. Added "Scan for low-risk threats" option, to scan for targets with low TAC index. Ad-Watch CSI engine performance highly improved; using less CPU and Memory as well as having a smaller footprint. GUI adapted to use the new TAC.
Download Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition 1.06
Spybot - Search & Destroy 1.4
- 2005-07-27
Spybot - Search & Destroy can detect and remove a multitude of adware files and modules from your computer. Spybot also can clean program and Web-usage tracks from your system, which is especially useful if you share your computer. Modules chosen for removal can be sent directly to the included file shredder, ensuring complete elimination from your system. For advanced users, it allows you to fix Registry inconsistencies related to adware and to malicious program installations. The handy online-update feature ensures that Spybot always has the most current and complete listings of adware, dialers, and other uninvited system residents.
Version 1.4 has the first native multi-installation scanner, is noticeably faster than version 1.3 during scans, and has improved the tools and updated the interface.
Download Spybot - Search & Destroy 1.4
Webroot Spy Sweeper 4.0
- 2005-07-26
Awarded PC Magazine's Editors' Choice 3 times in a row, and rated 5 stars by Download.com, Spy Sweeper scans and removes spyware in just minutes! Even the most vicious spyware programs like CoolWebSearch and Look2Me are no match for this powerful anti-spyware solution. Featuring a refined detection and quarantine process, Spy Sweeper successfully roots out all types of spyware, adware, and other unwanted programs. Spy Sweeper continuously protects you with minimal disruption by operating silently in the background and updating threat definitions automatically to defend against new threats. For advanced protection, Smart Shields, including a new ADS shield, constantly guard your browser and operating system, stopping spyware installations before they can infect your PC. Spy Sweeper features an easy-to-use interface and customizable options that give you the convenience and control you want. Trusted by millions, Spy Sweeper is the easy choice for your spyware protection.
Download Webroot Spy Sweeper 4.0
Facts & Figures
FACT: There is a 90% chance that your machine is hosting spyware.
FACT: There are currently over 79 000 Spyware and Adware programmes on the Internet that can infect your PC.
Your PC may be infected if you have ever downloaded screensavers, music, games, video clips, images, and even those "smiley face" icons that have been going around the past few months. Advertisers/Hackers offer these screensavers, music, games, etc. for free in order to legally "trick" consumers into installing their AdWare and SpyWare programs.
9 signs you may be infected by adware and/or spyware:
- When you start your browser, the home page has mysteriously changed. You change it back manually, but before long you find that it has changed back again.
- You get pop-up advertisements when your browser is not running or when your system is not even connected to the Internet, or you get pop-up ads that address you by name.
- Your phone bill includes expensive calls to 900 numbers that you never made-probably at an outrageous per-minute rate.
- You enter a search term in Internet Explorer's address bar and press Enter to start the search. Instead of your usual search site, an unfamiliar site handles the search.
- A new item appears in your Favorites list without your putting it there. No matter how many times you delete it, the item always reappears later.
- Your system runs noticeably slower than it did before. If you're a Windows 2000/XP user, launching the Task Manager and clicking the Processes tab reveals that an unfamiliar process is using nearly 100 percent of available CPU cycles.
- At a time when you're not doing anything online, the send or receive lights on your dial-up or broadband modem blink just as wildly as when you're downloading a file or surfing the Web. Or the network/modem icon in your system tray flashes rapidly even when you're not using the connection.
- A search toolbar or other browser toolbar appears even though you didn't request or install it. Your attempts to remove it fail, or it comes back after removal.
- And the final (and most important) sign is: Everything appears to be normal... Yes normal. The most devious spyware doesn't leave traces you'd notice. The best way to be fairly certain that you have most of the spyware/adware off you pc is to do regular scans and to keep your scanning software up to date.
What you must realise is that your computer is never safe... NEVER EVER... hacker/crackers/spyware creators will always be one step ahead of the anti spyware programs. All the anti spyware/adware programs can hope to do is patch the holes left by malicious software
