On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, "Grandma Jo" <nospam@peoplepc.com> wrote:
>AVG seems to be very good for virus protection, but I'm wondering if AdAware
>is the best I can do (free) for spyware protection. Is there any other
>program that works better? I'm assuming that AdAware is removing both
>adware and spyware, and that they are the same thing? ~
>Grandma Jo

I try to keep this short list of popular freeware programs up to
date. Experts say you should never have more than one full AV program
installed at a time, or it could cause potentially harmful conflicts.
I use all of these programs listed on all three of my home office PCs,
except for "avast," only because I was already using AVG, which seems
to work great. But you must keep these programs up to date. AVG does
it automatically by default, but most of these anti spy programs need
to be updated manually.

By the way, I found out about all these programs, and about other
more advanced programs, by subscribing to alt.privacy.spyware, where
real experts on the subject often read and post, like some do here on
m.p.s.v., as well.


Ckypp

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http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/lng/us/tpl/v5

Free anti virus avast! (home edition version 4.7)
http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

Free anti spyware, etc.:
http://www.ccleaner.com
http://www.spybot.info/en/download/
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
http://www.winpatrol.com/download.html
http://www.superantispyware.com/down...NTISPYWAREFREE
http://www.spywarewarrior.com/uiuc/res/ie-spyad.zip
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.zip
http://www.funkytoad.com/hoster.htm
http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
http://www.spywarewarrior.com/uiuc/resource.htm
http://www.siteadvisor.com/download/ie.html

Free news readers:
http://www.40tude.com/dialog/
http://xnews.newsguy.com/

Free news filters:
http://www.nfilter.org/
http://www.arcorhome.de/newshamster/...amster_de.html

Free public news servers:
http://www.newzbot.com/

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