How to Find Highly Rated and Recommended Anti-Spyware and Ad-ware Softwares for Absolutely FREE?

People often find it difficult to differentiate between Antivirus and Antispyware softwares. You may have Antivirus software and yet spy-wares can crawl into your PC. While,virus can cause actual damage to your PC, spy-ware does not harm your computer, but it watches over your online activities, collects various types of personal information, such as Internet surfing habit, sites that have been visited, can redirect web browser activity or search. Have you ever find spam emails in your email address which would resembles to your recent online search or your recent activities online? You may have a spy-ware crawling in your PC . Spywares can definitely slow down your internet connection speed and your PC performance.

Here in this article, I have listed two of most popular FREE Antispyware softwares available.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista(32- and 64-bit)

1. 

   Ad-Aware 2008: One of the first applications built for adware and spyware removal. Top rated (more than 10,000 positive reviews) and top downloaded software. Scans RAM, registry, hard drives and eternal storage devices for any spyware or adware. FREE edition does not provide real-time Ad-Watch guard. The direct link to the software page is given in the resource section of this article.

2. 

   Spyware Terminator: Spyware Terminator provides Real-time protection. Effectively remove spy-ware, ad ware, trojans, keyloggers, home page hijackers, and malware threats, easy to use and requires minimum PC resources, can perform Fast scan and Full scan. Protect your computer with powerful real-time protection shield, advanced system scanning and safe quarantine for found spy-ware. It includes optional Web Security Guard which displays website reviews and threat level to help identify potentially dangerous Web sites. (It will ask for optional web security guards during software installation, I personally do not choose to install it.) The direct link to the software page is given in the resource section of this article.

3. There are many more free and paid softwares available. I have selected two of these on the basis on user reviews and total downloads. (Check my article on three of most popular FREE anti-virus softwares in resource section of the article.)

Resources

• Ad-Aware 2008 - Direct Link
• Spyware Terminator - Direct Link
• How to Find Highly Rated and Recommended Anti-virus Softwares for Absolutely FREE?

[RickBasset]

on 7/5/2008 I've used Ad-aware for a few years now and I am still amazed at how much garbage it can find on my system. I will have to try the other one for real-time scanning.
Thanks for the resources.

Peace :~)