Who’s Spying on You?

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Continuing on with the theme of free and low cost tools, we will now look at a few options for detecting and removing Spyware, which is used by companies to track all kind of privacy and usage issues when browsing the Internet. The following article goes into this in more details: “Who’s Seeding the Net With Spyware?”.

Unfortunately, a minority of companies use Spyware for less than ethical practices, resulting in it being considered a serious enough security and privacy risk for governments to be looking at the introduction of legislation. See “What’s the Best Way to Stop Spyware?” to read more about this.

Spybot Search and Destroy can search for spyware and has an immunisation option to provide realtime protect of your system. Best of all it is free for all uses.

Adaware is a free for non-commercial use Spyware scanning tool. Many consider this to be the industry leader but it lacks the realtime protection in the basic version. This only appears in the Plus and Professional versions which surprise, surprise costs money!

a² Free is available to scan for Spyware, dialers and other malware. The personal edition is a low cost solutions that gives realtime protection to stop the malicious code getting onto the system in the first place.

RSL do not accept any liability for the use of these applications or the links provided. Use at your own risk.