A huge thanks to TP for his advice on Spyware removal.
I scanned my system and found over 3000 + different pieces of spyware on my laptop.......Pritty scarey.
After following TP's advice i downloaded and installed the following on my PC.
Spybot
Ad-aware
Spyware Doctor 3.2 (Not a recommendation from TP but suggested by someone on the DSC via u2u)
Anyway watching the gadget programme tonight and they just happened to run a short section on Spyware removal.
All of the above were recommended and 1 additional piece just released by Microsoft which is in beta mode for now.
I went to the Microsoft website and downloaded it (Warning to all those with not so genuine software it interogates your PC for the serial numbers of your software and validates it to your PC)
Did a scan with my 3 existing pieces of software with zero threats detected then a full system scan with the microsoft one.
1380 threats identified!!!
All the usual suspects.
Just goes to show that running a good selection of free software should pick up most things.
Good features it includes is real time protection which warns you of intrusion attempts (For spyware only) and a spynet group linked to share and automatically update each other of new threats (You can opt out of joining the group if you wish)
Paranoid you betya..............i do everything on my PC including ALL of my banking and paying bills etc.
Link for anyone interested in giving the microsoft software a bash.
Regards
ScottyB
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...e/default.mspx I
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