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1. I will preach my Freeware-Security-Ultimate-Combo Mozilla Firefox, Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition, Spybot-S&D, AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition, and TDS-3 Anti-Trojan System(trial) to anyone who will listen, until my voice gets hoarse.
   
   “Beware of spyware. If you can, use the Firefox browser.”-USA Today
   
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2. Trend Micro PC-Cilin Housecall Give your PC a FREE check-up! HouseCall is a purely web-based virus scan utility. Perfect if you don’t want a permanent virus scan solution.
   
   
3. Flexbeta.net compares Microsoft's new spyware fighting tool, Windows AntiSpyware, to Ad-Aware and SpyBot S&D; the two leading spyware tools on the market today. The review sets up an infected PC using VMWare Workstation and scans the machine using all three tools to see which tool detects the most spyware. Though still in beta, Microsoft AntiSpyware does an amazing job at detecting spyware by finding twice as many infected files as Ad-Aware and nearly three times as SpyBot. FULL ARTICLE
   
   
4. The end result of this whole discussion is that we need to continue fighting against the idiots who create malware. Of course, we also need to address the lack of understanding in the general public about the need for regular PC maintenance, touting the many tools available to those who have any desire to confront this problem on their own systems. FULL ARTICLE