I’ve been doing a fair amount of research in regards to finding the best *free* resources when it comes to protecting your computer from viruses, trojan horses, spyware, adware and malware in general. Free programs and applications might not be as feature rich or give you quite as much coverage as a commercial product, but i’ve found in my research that with the right combo of software, the gap between using commercial and free products is marginal.
If you ever do a install of SpyBot - Search & Destroy, make sure to install the tea timer. The tea timer basically runs in your windows tray and alerts you to any registry changes a program is trying to make to your OS. At this point, it tells you what’s trying to make the change and gives you the option of allow or denying the change, then logs your decision. Granted, if you are installing software on purpose, you’ll want to allow the registry changes. I do find it helpful when some software tries to install spyware along with it, because you can actually still install the product but leave out any other unwanted software in the process. The only downside i’ve experienced with this is that novice computer users won’t always posses the best judgement of what reigstry changed to accept and which ones to deny, so it’s not a all inclusive anti-spyware software solution for many end users, but it sure does make your life easier and beats spending hours removing parasites from your computer when you learn how to effectively use it.
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