[Houndog]

I hope he doesn't mind. I found this post by Dugoutgold which I think is the one you are looking for.

anti spyware stuff you should know

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Greetings all, well this has noth to do with horse racing but I was reading Bills post to Jeff about the site getting some "undeserables" trying to sell thier errr wares via hyper links and all so I thought this cant hurt. These days virus arnt much of an issue anymore, however Spyware is!! I work parttime for a person here who builds and repairs machines and I take on all putors that are slow etc. The reason? you guessed it spyware. We have tested over the years dam near every anti spyware program around and concluded that you need 3 of them to really be covered on your machine. Dont fret they are all free! The reason 3 instead of just one is that one program will catch stuff that the others dont.

here they are just do a google search, they are all free and easy to install and run, just dont be lazy and run the help files on them, its well worth the effort:

Spybot search and destroy
Adware SE personal (make sure its the free version not the free 30 day free trail one ok?)
Grisoft free anti-spyware ( this is new and we are in love with it, it kicks the hell outa that nasty spyware and we have found it to be the bestwe have seen so far)
One last note, dont bother with free firewalls they are more of a pain in butt than they are worth, and not very effective, (we know we test all this stuff) windows firewall is ok and at least as good as the others.

If you dont have any of this and you are using dsl or cable you are opening your machine up to the world!! If you have any questions feel free to email me, Stay secure!!! Doug