Viruses, Trojans, and Spyware, A down and dirty tutorial by:  CraZyCaT

Viruses and Spyware usually make your computer run real slow with plenty of Pop-ups and problems.  What slows your computer down is that most of them are sending information someone, and also trying to infect other computers through the Internet.

Viruses and Spyware usually takes the form of an innocuous software program that unleashes a flood of malware or viruses after it's installed and run. Since attacks and ease of removal vary, and there's no one-size-fits-all solution. However, there are some common techniques for getting your computer running good and safe again!  Here are some fixes, and ways to keep your computer running safe and at peak performance.

Here are a few FREE tools to help you!  I use the following to protect my PC & this stuff is totally amazing and will not only speed up your PC but will protect it as well!  :

 A GOOD Anti-Virus!
Most Internet providers these days have teamed up with either Norton or McAfee and offer the FULL versions totally FREE-  If you can't find it at your providers Website or even call them directly!!! 

Search and Destroy (FREEWARE)
Spybot - Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

SpywareBlaster (FREEWARE)
Prevent the installation of spyware and other potentially unwanted software!
Download the latest Spyware Blaster version and you'll be secured by the most powerful anti-spyware protection solution anywhere!
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

SpywareGuard (FREEWARE)
A real-time protection solution against spyware and other potentially unwanted software.
Detect browser hijacking attempts and more as they are happening.
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/sgdownload.html

Download Doc Scrubber (FREEWARE)
Analyze and scrub hidden and potentially embarrassing data in Word documents.
http://www.docscrubber.com/

MRU-Blaster (FREEWARE)
Protect your privacy - find and remove over 30,000 MRU lists and other stores of hidden information.   http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/mrublaster.html

EULAlyzer (FREEWARE)
Analyze license agreements for interesting words and phrases!
License agreements can be a pain and a bore, but not reading them can be dangerous. EULAlyzer makes it all easy - download today!
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/eulalyzer.html

Ad-Aware, (FREEWARE) (The Personal Edition is Free)
Was the original commercial application designed to seek and destroy adware and spyware.
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware


Hope this Helps, and Best Wishes to All!
CraZyCaT

There's All Kinds of Free!

There's all kinds of Free stuff on the Web-  With my 20+ years experience of the Internet I've ran into some very cool stuff!

• All of this software is "Open Source" totally free to everyone! 
• All of the Samples are promotional giveaways!

Some of the supporters of open source considered the term a “marketing campaign for free software,” which would appeal to business executives by highlighting the software's practical benefits, while not raising issues of right and wrong that they might not like to hear. Other supporters flatly rejected the free software movement's ethical and social values. Whichever their views, when campaigning for open source, they neither cited nor advocated those values. The term “open source” quickly became associated with ideas and arguments based only on practical values, such as making or having powerful, reliable software. Most of the supporters of open source have come to it since then, and they make the same association.

The two terms describe almost the same category of software, but they stand for views based on fundamentally different values. Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement. For the free software movement, free software is an ethical imperative, essential respect for the users' freedom. By contrast, the philosophy of open source considers issues in terms of how to make software “better”—in a practical sense only. 

I'm going to start posting some of the best Free stuff I've found, and as I find it!

Free Samples mailed directly to your home, free Open Source software, Free games, Free Security Software. All kinds of cool stuff!

You won't be disappointed!