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Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE
Ad-Aware Personal provides advanced protection from known
data-mining, aggressive advertising, Trojans, dialers, malware,
browser hijackers, and tracking components. This software is
downloadable free of charge.
http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
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Spybot Search & Destroy
Spyware is a relatively new kind
of threat that common anti-virus applications do not yet cover. If
you see new toolbars in your Internet Explorer that you didn't
intentionally install, if your browser crashes, or if you browser
start page has changed without your knowing, you most probably have
spyware. But even if you don't see anything, you may be infected,
because more and more spyware is emerging that is silently tracking
your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile of you that
will be sold to advertisement companies. Spybot-S&D is free, so
there's no harm in trying to see if something snooped into your
computer, too :)
http://www.spybot.info/en/spybotsd/index.html
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Personal
information
The Internet makes it easy to shop, bank, and communicate online,
but it also puts you at risk for identity theft. By using some basic
precautions, you can reduce the odds of being a victim.
http://www.microsoft.com/security/default.mspx
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Malicious Software Removal Tool
The Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool checks
computers running Windows XP, Windows 2000 for infections by specific,
prevalent malicious software—including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom—and helps
remove any infection found.
http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx |
