The Spyware and Adware Guide V

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.

1. 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".
2. Once the download is complete, this window will show up. Click next until you see the picture in the next step.
3. At this screen, click finish to complete the installation.
4. 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.
5. You will now see this window. Click start
6. Click next
7. 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.
8. 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
9. 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.
10. This will confirm you want to remove all this resource-wasting, privacy-invading Spyware. Click OK
11. You should now see a screen that shows Ad-aware is deleting all the objects from your computer.
12. 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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