Security - Anti-spyware

Anti-Adware / Spyware Information

Ad-Aware – check for updates, and run occasionally
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

Spy Bot Search and Destroy
http://www.safer-networking.org/

More adware stuff here:http://www.cexx.org/adware.htm

Peer to Peer

If you must use Peer to Peer file sharing software, try the File Donkey or Bit Torrent protocols.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/emule – eMule

http://www.bittorrent.com/ – Bittorrent

One of the most popular Bit Torrent sites is http://www.suprnova.org/

If you are afraid of being tracked for using a P2P network, you can block sites by using software such as PeerGuardian – http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/

Use Kazaa Lite, instead of Kazaa – may be hard to find
http://www.kazaalite.tk/ – also check out “supertrick” at this site, if you want to avoid web ads.
http://www.zeropaid.com/kazaalite/ (alternate site)

h3. Other useful items Windows Update – Use windows update (from start menu, or task bar icon) about once a month to check for updates
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com

Pop Up stoppers are no longer necessary, now that firefox is available

Pop-Up Stopper http://www.panicware.com/
Pop-Up Stopper, Free Version download
http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.html

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