Spyware / Adware Removal
Using a program called Ad-aware, you can delete most of the commonly used Spyware programs from your computer.
What is Ad-aware?
Ad-Aware is a tool that scans your computers memory, registry, hard, removable and optical drives for known data-mining, aggressive advertising, and tracking components also known as Spyware / Adware. Ad-Aware also offers a paid version of the software that tracks in real time your computers Spyware activity.
- Download Ad-Aware (free). Click here to get to the download page or visit the Ad-aware page on Zeropaid.com, then click open or "Run from current location".
- Once the download is complete, this window will show up. Click next until you see the picture in the next step.
- At this screen, click finish to complete the installation.
- Double click the Ad-aware 6.0 shortcut icon on your desktop. This will open Ad-aware and you can start find those annoying programs.
- You will now see this window. Click start
- Click next
- You should see Ad-Aware scanning your computer for Spyware. Turn your speakers up for the next step! The scan will take about 1-10 minutes.
- If you had your speakers turned on you probably heard a buzz sound, that sound indicates your computer has Spyware. A little icon will now flash when the scan is complete. Click next
- The next screen should display a list of know Spyware programs on your computer. Right click on the list and choose “select all objects”. Verify all the items have checkmarks and click next.
- This will confirm you want to remove all this resource-wasting, privacy-invading Spyware. Click OK
- You should now see a screen that shows Ad-aware is deleting all the objects from your computer.
- Once you have completed all the steps, and your system is clean of Spyware, restart your computer for the changes on your system to take effect.
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