SpyBot to the rescue....!
In a followup to my Adware/Spyware rant of the past week, I stepped up to the plate and downloaded an Adware removal program......SpyBot. After running it on two seperate machines, I'm here to sing it's praises. And, it's FREE.
Adware is so innocuous because it's installed deep with the bowels of your machine....and consequently is hard to identify and manually remove. SpyBot is designed to find all the HKEY codes and little .EXE programs that run the Scumware which allow intrusive popups, unwanted Internet connections and that slow your machine down.
At about 6 Mb, it is a fairly manageable download, even for dialup connections, and installs rapidly and easily. I would recommend running thru the quick tutorial, especially if you are not a Geek. But if you can read above a 5th grade level it is fairly self explanatory. When run, SpyBot searches your entire machine for the offending programs and codes, and then allows you to delete them all, or to manually select the ones that will be deep sixed. It even sorts thru your "cookies" and points out the ones that may do such evil things as data mining.
If you don't know if you have Adware/Spyware on your machine, I can almost guarantee you that you do. Spend the little bit of time using SpyBot and you'll be surprised. Deleting all these Scumsuckers will give you immense pleasure.
In a followup to my Adware/Spyware rant of the past week, I stepped up to the plate and downloaded an Adware removal program......SpyBot. After running it on two seperate machines, I'm here to sing it's praises. And, it's FREE.
Adware is so innocuous because it's installed deep with the bowels of your machine....and consequently is hard to identify and manually remove. SpyBot is designed to find all the HKEY codes and little .EXE programs that run the Scumware which allow intrusive popups, unwanted Internet connections and that slow your machine down.
At about 6 Mb, it is a fairly manageable download, even for dialup connections, and installs rapidly and easily. I would recommend running thru the quick tutorial, especially if you are not a Geek. But if you can read above a 5th grade level it is fairly self explanatory. When run, SpyBot searches your entire machine for the offending programs and codes, and then allows you to delete them all, or to manually select the ones that will be deep sixed. It even sorts thru your "cookies" and points out the ones that may do such evil things as data mining.
If you don't know if you have Adware/Spyware on your machine, I can almost guarantee you that you do. Spend the little bit of time using SpyBot and you'll be surprised. Deleting all these Scumsuckers will give you immense pleasure.
