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Spyware,malware.trojans,viruses.worms and many nasty other things havebrought much grief to the majority of us at one time or the other.Clean up

and tune up should be part of your regular computer activities.If you are

going to be on the internet,you are going to be infected..it’s that simple.

This article if followed through will clean about 97% of the personal

computers out there.

The model machine for this article will be Windows XP.Windows Xp is chosen

because it is the most used operating system in use at this time.The same

principles used here can also be used for other Windows operatings systems

as well.

The Windows operating system is designed to be easy to run.This comes at

the cost of being more easily infected. Alot of things happen while we are

surfing the internet.Scripts are executed for us all in a seemless manner.

Microsoft has the right idea in making your computing experiance an easier

one. It is all the not so nice guys that are the problem. These not so nice

guys create all sorts of nasty things for your computer.

You may ask why why do these nasty people put spyware on my computer.One

word- MONEY.

Your surfing habits are tracked for one, and unwanted advertisemnets can

often be a result.

Theft,what you click on,that is an ad and ads cost money.People actually are

stealing revenues that are designed for someone else,you are only a pawn in

the game.

Its big bussiness and it is very popular and it is here to stay.

You do not have to surf for porn to be infected.Any thing from a simple

forum on cars to a site on how to make double layer cake puts you at

risk. Although there are millions of sites that do not participate in the

spyware game,there are millions that do.

Now lets get started on getting your computer to operating closer to the

performance it did when you purchased it.

We will be turning off system restore while we are doing our spyware

elimination.The reason for this is because,some spyware will simply re-

establish itself if system retsore is left on.

Here is how to turn off system restore for Windows XP.Click start–Control

panel–Classic view–System–System Restore tab–Check turn off system

restore–click ok.

Lets get on to the next step.I know you have heard it many times before.I

do not want to sound like a broken record here.UNINSTALL your unused

programs.My purpose for you here is not regain used didsk space but to

uninstall less than ideal programs,there is a big differance.

This is very important,many of these programs nail you when you install

them.Do not go to the control panel yet to uinistall these programs.First

we want to see if these programs have thier own un-installer.Click on

start,go to the programs and mouse on them,many will have un-installers

with them.In general always look for the uninstaller in the menu rather

than just jumping to control panel.

Uninstall all the garbage you can with the uninstallers.Reboot you

computer.Now go to Control panel–add remove programs–now unistall uneeded

programs.Keep your anti virus, your Utilies that come with your

machine,Adobe,java,windows updates{if listed} your drivers for printers and

sort.Do uninstall that free game crap,the toolbar items{unless it is

legitimate sush as Google toolbar or Yahoo toolbar.I am not saying that all

other toolbars are bad.I am saying that about 90 percent of other toolbars

are.They are a leading source of spyware infections. Get rid of them

now. Additionally you may be hesitant to uninstall your spyware tools that

you have on your computer now. These very tools are often spyware!Imagine

that.

NO good reputable spyware remover will ever be thrown in your face as a pop

up.a pop under,or the new ones that slide in from the side. Nor will they be

pushed in an E-mail. No legimate spyware remover will come out of the middle

of no where and say your computer is infected.What you are seeing when this

happens is the result of spyware itself.

With that said.lets now go get a quality reputable spyware removal tool.It

is called spybot search and destoy CLICK HERE to download. Click on download

here by safer networking ltd. Save the file. We will run it after it has

downloaded.It is always good practice to save a file before running it.By

doing so we can scan it first for a virus. Secondly when we go to install

it if our computer freezes up or whatever we dont need to go re-download

the file again.

Install spybot sd–during the install if the option to have protection for

internet explorer{active download blocker} or worded simular check it. There

is no need to check tea timer.Be patient during the install there are a few

steps to go through,just keep going.Be sure to get all your updates.

Note: if you are using Vista you will need to right click on the program

then run spybot as an administrator. Start up spybot and up in the upper

left hand corner you will see where it says Immunize in the shape of a

shield–click it–now after that has finished you will see where it also

says imminize toward the top with a little plus sign on it –click it–The

reason we do it in both places is some setups do not work unless done this

way. Now click— search and destroy–then click on— check for

problems. Scanning can take a while if you have an older pc so go make

something to eat or kill a little time. If you have never run Spybot before

chances are you will find all kinds of nasty spyware waiting to be removed

after the scanning is done,Go ahead and select the option to fix and remove

the objects. You have just done the single biggest favor that you can for

your computer and its free and prevents alot of nasty spyware by blocking

bad sites for you. What else is great about it is it does not use any

computer resources unless it is scanning. The exception would be tea timer

but I told you to not check that feature.

Next we will go download Ad-Aware{free} Click here. Install it. The install is

pretty straight forward just follow all the prompts. Next do a full system

scan.Clean up what it finds.Ad-aware has good help menus,it is very easy to

run.

Chances are the Ad-aware found a few issues nothing major as that is

usually found by spybot.No toolbox is complete without both. If given the

choice to have to rely on one or the other I pick spybot.

By now you have probably have removed alot of spyware,but we are not

done. The reason being is that spyware on a system makes way for more

spyware.If we are going to kill the enemy,lets don’t lets any of their

friends hang around to let some more of their buddies in.

What this means is we have to go do some more scanning. We are going to be

using another excellent free tool for this next scan. We are going to be

using what is called Housecall. Click here. This can take a while to get the

files on your system and get the scan completed.When you reach the screen

to to choose java based or to use a browser plug in,chose java based it

is faster.It is free and thorough however so be happy. When completed. Click

on clean infections automatically. Yep you have to wait some more.

You may have found another item or two with the above scan.We have one more

to go now,this is another free service this one is provided by Microsoft–

Click here–half way down the page click where it says FULL SERVICE

SCAN.This service will scan for a variety of nasty things.The drawback to

this service however is it does not tell the name of the offending spyware

or virus but does delete it for you.This is partially one of the reasons I

use this utility last.

The above methods will not clean 100 percent of spyware off all

computers.The above methods are designed to cure the majority of computers

out there with easy to use utilities. None of the utilities will do any

damage they are very safe.

There are are more powerful Utilities but this article is to cover the

majority of spyware and have the majority of people be able to use the

utilities with out the fear of doing any harm.

You should run spybot every week or two as well as ad-aware.You should use

house call every few weeks as well as the Microsoft full service scan.

Happy Computing!