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Beginner's Notes & Tips
Communications Notes & Tips
Operating System Notes & Tips
General Interest
Hardware Notes & Tips
Humor
Library News
Spybot-Search
and Destroy - This is the program you read about in the January 2003
Toggle Newsletter. It searches out and "destroys" spyware and adware
hidden on your hard
drive. When you run this program for
the first time you may be shocked to find out how much spyware is on
your hard drive (assuming of course that you surf the 'net). The program
finds cookies, registry
entries, key loggers, internet
dialers, browser hijackers and even some Trojans. It is possible that
once these items are removed, the related programs may no longer
function. Not to worry as Spybot saves your
changes and lets you do a complete
restore. The program comes as one executable file and is over 2.8 MB
large, so it is supplied on a CD, along with a doc (readme) file. The
doc file contains a list of spybots
and adbots with some explanation so
you can understand what you are deleting and what you are keeping. You
may install the program by just clicking on spybot.exe on the CD or by
dragging the file to a temp
directory on your hard drive and
running it from there. The program is freeware and contains no ads of
its own. On CD
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