If you go online, it is 94.3% chance that your computers are infected with Spyware or Adware that are installed in your computer without your permissions. These Spyware and Adware are downloaded when you accidentally visit some “bad” websites. What these software do is generate a lot of Ads, pop ups and record your personal email addresses so that they can sell you something. Alright, enough overview. Let’s start your weapons and kill all of them.
1. AdAware-SE Personal (FREE)
You can’t go wrong with this AdAware-SE personal spyware removal software from LavaSoft. The best part of this software is it is free for personal use. Our test shows that AdAware removes all the cookies and spywares that stored in your temporary folders in Windows. Besides that, it also remove all the bad registry entries in your Windows “Vulnerable” registry system.
If you are an IT admin like us, you should get AdAware Professional Edition or AdAware Enterprise Edition if you need to get large volume of licenses.
Below are the additional features that come with Professional and Enterprise Edition.
Key Features – Enterprise Console
- View all registered and active clients
- View all machines running Ad-Aware SE
- Update client software using .msi files and Windows Group policies
- Update detection definition files on all client computers
- Monitor the reference file version for all client computers
- Monitor the malware detection logs from previous Ad-Aware executions
- Monitor the Console server status
- Scan one or more clients over the network
- Specify notifications for events such as reference file updates and network scans
Key Features – Professional
- User-controlled spyware removal
- Customizable Scans
- Code Sequence Identification (CSI) technology
- Extensive Lavasoft Detection Database
- ADS scan
- Blocks browser hijackers
- Quarantine manager
- Real-time scanning
- Registry protection
- Executable file protection
- Process Watch module
- Command line interface
DOWNLOAD LINK: Download Home Edition of LavaSoft Adaware
2. Microsoft Windows Defender (FREE with Genuine Windows)
As the name suggest, this Spyware and Adware removal software is developed by Microsoft and distributed for FREE but only for genuine Windows users. Before downloading this software, Microsoft website will try to detect the copy of your windows and determine whether you use an original copy of Windows. If your computer pass the test, then you can download and install this wonderful Windows Defender software.
Our test shows that Microsoft Windows Defender does remove some of the spywares that AdAware can’t find. It might because Microsoft knows where their security holes are than any other outsiders.
Besides that, the Windows Defender does protect your Internet Explorer ‘s default page from being hijacked to some “porno sites”
AdminPick.com strongly recommends Windows users to download this software. The Windows Defender has one of our favorite feature: Software Explorer that shows what softwares are running on the background on your computer.
DOWNLOAD LINK: Download Microsoft Windows Defender
Conclusion:
Running these two free spyware removal software in yout computer should able to protect your computer pretty well. There are soe other FREE spyware removal software outthere that does the jobs that pretty much the same as Defender and Lavasoft AdAware. Remember, running too many unnessay programs which in this case are spyware removal and adware removal might slow down your system for no goods.