Does anyone know how I can get rid of spyware on my computer?

Question

Is it possible to download spybot or something for free?

What's the link?

Thanks!

Answer 1

spybot search& destroy is free and should do the trick just go to www.spybot search&destroy and follow the links

Answer 2

Hi, you can download ESET NOD32 Antivirus - Complete Proactive Protection Against Viruses, Spyware, Rootkits, Worms, Trojans, Malicious Web Sites, Identity Theft and Hackers

http://www.nod32.com.sg/html/44/42/

ESET NOD32 Antivirus provides:

Proactive Protection: The award winning ThreatSense technology combines multiple layers of detection protecting you from Internet threats before it is too late.

Precise Detection: ESET accurately identifies known and unknown threats. It consistently wins top awards from testing labs and is recognized for having zero false positives.1

Lightweight Design: Requires less memory and CPU power, allowing your computer to run fast, making more room for games, web browsing, and emailing.

Fast Scanning Speeds: Highly efficient program ensuring fast file scanning and product updates. It runs quietly in the background.  

Answer 3

To remove spyware,there are many solutions exist, all of them with their own strengths and weaknesses.

Top 5 anti-spywares reviews,comparisons and download links on

http://anti-spyware-center.net

You can download and scan your computer for free.

Answer 4

Free spyware programs to download are Spybot S&D, SuperAntiSpyware, Ad-Aware 2007 and AVG. Check out http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-sAFtLsc8e... for more details.

Answer 5

Download Yahoo Anti Spyware and scan / Clean your PC

Answer 6

I have found that most (not all) of the freeware or unpaid spyware programs are usually disabled and won't clean anything unless you pay

for the program. Your best bet is to find a mainstream Freeware Antivirus program or Internet Security program like AVGfree or Zone

Alarm or something similar. They have no specific adjenda to get you to load their software. Sometimes even the free spyware programs will either report tracking cookies to try to make it look like you have more than you actually do. Some even go so far as to add spyware to your system so that if you did not have them before you do now. They tend to prey on the Free Aspect of the software industry. Let's face it at 2:00 am and the computer gets slow or locks up and you need to find a solution some of these "free" programs look pretty good.  That is until you try to fix the problems it found and suddenly it's asking for a credit card. Avgfree and Zone Alarms will install and remove most of the c**p with one scan. Then you can evaluate other options at your liesure and not driven by the need to get the system running. As a technician I am always looking for free programs to achieve one goal or another. These are the two i reccomend and of Course you can get paid versions of Symante (Norton) antivirus (internet security) or Macaffee Internet Security. Buy the Disk so that when you install them - even if it is downloaded from their secure site you can't be sure of your machine - directly from CD since the computer cannot write to the CD or DVD. There are also some good Online Scans - Symantec does have one on their site ( and keep moving it, so look) and so does trend micro have a free scan. This will determine (for free) if you have virus / Spyware before you do anything Rash.

Hope This Helps

Tekkiefirst

Answer 7

Follow the instruction on the link below to clean your computer

10 easy step virus and spyware removal using free software

http://www.review-ninja.com/2008/08/10-e...

Answer 8

You can free download antispyware 2008

http://www.anti-spyware-2008.com which is an essential tool to keep your system free of dangerous spywares, protecting your privacy and your PC.

It also works very well for me

Answer 9

Spybot is a free anti-spyware tool that that contains many features to

immunize your computer against some spyware.

http://www.safer-networking.org/

It modifies Internet Explorer to block a lot of the bad stuff known to Spybot.

There is a second layer of protection for IE that blocks anything that should come through by different aspects.

Spybot Resident a tool which check permanently running application to protect your system.

Spybot Resident TeaTimer is a tool which perpetually monitors the processes called/initiated and immediately detects known malicious processes.

It giving you some options how to deal with this process in the future:

You can set TeaTimer to be informed when the process tries to start again automatically kill the process or generally allow the process to run

There is also an option to delete the file associated with this process.

In addition, TeaTimer detects, when something wants to change some critical registry keys. TeaTimer can protect you against such changes again giving you an option: You can either Allow or Deny the change.

Spybot host file locking is a tool which locks the hosts file to prevent unauthorized changes.

Locking the hosts file will prevent most hosts hijackers (even unknown) from doing harm;

Locking the IE settings will prevent other users of your computer to change your preferences.

Spybot ActiveX is a tool to display a list of installed ActiveX applications it will display a green checkmark in front of ActiveX applications known as legitimate,

and a red sign in front if applications known as illegitimate

Spybot process list is a tool displays a list of all currently running processes,

including some information about them. It also allows you to kill some processes

Spybot System startup tool lists all programs that are started at Windows startup.

If those items are in the database coming with Spybot, it will display some more information about them.

It also allows you to disable (and enable) items, as well as delete them, change them or insert new items.

Spybot system internal is a registry cleaner that fix error in windows registry.

Answer 10

Go to www.download.com

Download Spybot Search and Destroy