With rapid grow of internet technology, everyone can access to internet search for any information they want. At the same time, computer may easily get attack and affected by spyware or adware when users access to internet while searching for information or data. When the computer get attack and affected by spyware or adware, the computer’s performance will drop and some of the spyware will steal information from the computer and send to others. Beside that, the computer that affected by spyware or adware will be the host and spread to other computers if the affected computer connected to the network within the company or home. It’s troublesome to remove and clean up all the spyware and adware, this is because users have to know what tools or utility can be use to scan and effectively to remove those spyware and adware.
Now they a lots spyware and adware remove utility in market, but users have to know which spyware and adware remover will effectively remove spyware and aware from the computer. Most of the spyware and adware are free for users to download and scan, but not all can detect and remove the spyware and adware.
For users to get the correct and free spyware and adware utility to scan and remove or clean up their computer from spyware or adware, below are the spyware and adware utility may consider to download and start scanning.
SpywareBlaster 4.1
Prevent the installation of spyware and other potentially unwanted software!
Size: 2.74MB
Source: www.javacoolsoftware.com
McAfee Rootkit Detective 1.0
McAfee Rootkit Detective 1.0 is a program designed and developed by McAfee Avert Labs to proactively detect and clean rootkits that are running on the system.
Size: 1.45MB
Source: www.mcafee.com/us
Trend Micro HijackThis 2.0.2
Trend Micro HijackThis is a free utility which quickly scans your Windows computer to find settings that may have been changed by spyware, malware or other unwanted programs. HijackThis creates a report, or log file, with the results of the scan.
Size: 794KB
Source: us.trendmicro.com/us/home/home-user/
Spybot-Search & Destroy 1.6.0.30
Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications.
Size: 14.38MB
Source: www.safer-networking.org
SpyCatcher Express 2007 4.5.2 build 51
SpyCatcher Express protects all Web surfers by providing a safe and advanced antispyware solution.
Size: 11.79MB
Source: www.tenebril.com
SpywareGuard 2.2
SpywareGuard provides a real-time protection solution against spyware that is a great addition to SpywareBlaster’s protection method.
Size: 1.97MB
Source: www.javacoolsoftware.com
Ad-Aware 2008 7.1.0.8
Ad-Aware 2008 Free continues the Lavasoft tradition and spirit by providing a no-strings-attached, full powered free anti-spyware product that is safe, thorough, and easy to use.
Size: 18.27MB
Source: www.lavasoft.com
Advanced Spyware Remover 1.98
Advanced Spyware Remover is an advanced but easy-to-use anti spyware tool that removes spyware, adware, malware, hijacker programs and immunizes them to block future spyware threats that may invade your privacy and even steal your credit card numbers or personal information.
Size: 3.08MB
Source: www.evonsoft.com
A-squared 3.5.0.25
A-squared Free is specialized in finding and removing them securely. The disk scan checks all files on your system disks for Malware. The scanner scans for Spyware Traces.
Size: 2.8MB
Source: www.emsisoft.com
Bazooka Adware and Spyware Scanner 1.13.03
Bazooka Adware and Spyware Scanner detects a multitude of spyware, adware, trojan, keylogger, foistware and trackware components; sources of irritation that antivirus software does not deal with.
Size: 727KB
Source: www.kephyr.com
RemoveAny 2.1.3
RemoveAny is an anti-spyware software that helps to remove any application from your computer. It starts at system startup and monitors all drivers and processes run.
Size: 296KB
Source: heavenward.ru
RogueRemover 1.24
RogueRemover is an application that can remove rogue antispyware, antivirus, and hard drive cleaning applications with ease. It removes rogue applications such as WinAntiSpyware, AVSystemCare, and SpySheriff.
Size: 675KB
Source: www.malwarebytes.org
SUPERAntiSpyware 4.20.1046
Easily remove pests such as WinFixer, SpyAxe, SpyFalcon, and thousands more!
Size: 6.33MB
Source: www.superantispyware.com
It is better to prevent and protect rather then remove, users now may download any of the spyware and adware utilities above start to scan and remove spyware and adware. Some of the utilities may require updating before start scanning, and it’s good to scan on every week to maintain the computer performance if you suspect the computer’s performance become slowly or they have some weird activity or service running when logon to Windows.
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October 8th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Hijack this is truly a great program. Its helped me countless times.
Ive used Ad-Aware and SpyBot before too with great results.
Great job on putting this info together, its appreciated.
January 4th, 2009 at 7:45 am
I have used Ad-Aware too but now uninstalled it because i think it slowing down my surfing activities. I think i will go for Hijack this program.