How to protect yourself from snooping software

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Spyware also installs itself on your PC along with other apps and provides advertisers with information about your Web activities, but it does so without your consent. You may download a piece of software that includes spyware and never know it\'s there until you happen get a message from your firewall software saying the spyware\'s trying to contact the Internet. \r\n\r\nUNFORTUNATELY, the usual antivirus and firewall programs can\'t protect you from adware and spyware. Antivirus apps won\'t detect these pests because they aren\'t technically viruses. And firewalls only block outgoing messages from adware and spyware; the components themselves remain deep within your PC. \r\n\r\nIn late January, Lavasoft released its long-awaited Ad-aware 6.0--and added a $40 price tag. Now, the free version of Ad-aware is virtually the same as version 5, and to get the new of the new enhancements you have to pay the $40. \r\n\r\nThis fee, though admittedly not very high, started to seem less worth it the more I learned about a new, free program called Spybot Search & Destroy. Spybot not only identifies and removes ad-surveying apps embedded on your PC, but also spots Trojan horses, dialers (apps that use Active X to dial expensive 976 telephone numbers), security leaks within Microsoft\'s Internet Explorer, and other malicious behavior on your PC. \r\n\r\nSPYBOT OFFERS significant advantages over the free version of Ad-aware, too. Unlike Ad-aware, which doesn\'t give you any information about what it finds on your PC, Spybot provides you with a clear list of everything it\'s discovered. Simply mouse-over any item on the list, and you can find out where it came from, what it does, and what Spybot recommends you do--keep it or destroy it. \r\n\r\nhttp://spybot.eon.net.au/index.php?lang=en&page=download\r\n\r\n:rolleyes: