These are some new good places for websites on anti spyware...these are from cnet.com

Active Ports is an essential tool that lists all incoming and outgoing connections for all the active network connections, such as your Internet dial-up or broadband connection.

http://www.download.com/3000-2085-10121832.html

 

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In Lesson 1, you learned the mechanisms spyware and malware uses to infect computers and carry out tasks. After spyware has installed itself, there are three distinct investigative steps to resolve the problem:
  • Location: Sometimes computers misbehave at random for reasons other than spyware. Installing new drivers, running a new application, or even getting a virus can cause a computer to misbehave. All of these are problems that need resolving, but spyware diagnosis techniques won't help. Therefore, the first step in defeating spyware is to actually locate it and confirm it's spyware.
  • Diagnosis: You've located a suspicious Registry entry or an unusual executable file, but how do you know what to do next? Just like viruses or normal applications, every piece of spyware is different. Before moving on to the next stage, it's essential to discover exactly which piece of spyware has infected your computer.
  • Removal: After you know the type of spyware affecting your computer, you can begin the removal process. Whether you use an automated removal application or decide to remove it manually, the process is made far easier by knowing exactly which type of spyware you're working with.

Locate the problem, diagnose it, and then remove or treat it -- almost the same process a doctor would use to treat a disease! You learn more about how to do this throughout this lesson.

Spybot is an all-purpose antispyware tool, and has been voted both CNET Best Anti-Spyware utility and one of the CNET Top 10 programs on Download.com. It can fix both Web browser-based spyware and application-based spyware, as well as remove usage tracks from applications and immunize your computer against future infection. To install, just download the setup application and follow the wizard steps. Make sure you select Yes when Spybot asks whether it should perform an online update -- this ensures the data files used to detect spyware are up to date.

http://reviews.cnet.com/Spybot_Search_and_Destroy/4505-3514_7-20848563.html?tag=prod

HijackThis is an interesting antispyware tool in that instead of attempting to detect rogue applications as Spybot does, it targets the methods used by spyware to infect a computer. This means that it will find and list absolutely every program using these methods, regardless of legitimacy. As you learned in Lesson 1, spyware often uses the same features and flaws that legitimate applications use to provide their functionality. This makes HijackThis an extremely powerful tool, but one that can easily cause irreparable damage.

http://www.download.com/HijackThis/3000-8022-10307556.html?tag=lst-0-1

With automated tools such as Spybot and HijackThis, removal of spyware is generally as simple as selecting the Fix option. There's one piece of spyware that does merit a special mention due to its nastiness: CWS. Variants of this malware integrate deep inside Windows, making removal very difficult. If you're unfortunate enough to be infected by this menace, a great tool called CoolWebShredder can generally fix the problems.

http://www.search.com/search?q=CoolWebShredder

 

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