The Virtual Garden

Spyware, Adware and Advertising Trojans are often placed on your computer without your knowledge by webpages that you visit in order that the companies who's pages you visit can keep a track of your surfing habits.They can then initiate mailing programmes or pop-up adverts etc. whenever you sign onto the web.

Amazing !!!

Now you need to know how to get rid !!

Ad-aware is one of the best clean-up tools that is available to get rid of these nasties.

You can download this for free at www.lavasoftusa.com

You will also need to download the update prog (refupdate) as well.

From the lavasoft download page, choose any one of the recommended download agents, the ones listed towards the top of the page are usually more consistant servers.

Another useful programme is Spybot Search & Destroy which you will find on the following page http://www.spybot.info/en/index.html

And yet another worth having is AVG, free download, free updates

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1/lng/us/tpl/v5

Just one more

http://www.ewido.net/en/download/

You can't have too many of these virus checkers,

because what one misses another one may find.

Remember to update these programmes before you use them

Important Announcement The MSN Groups service will close in February 2009. You can move your group to Multiply, MSN’s partner for online groups. Learn More
The Virtual Garden	[email protected]