safe computing

Let's start off the New Year by getting our systems free of the accumulated junk that various malware programs have left on them. And it is nice that the fruit of the acquisition of Giant Software by Microsoft (I know, it sounds like a redundant joke) is finally in evidence: last week, Microsoft released its first beta of its very own spyware removal tool.

I have following on my computer and am hoping am secure.

- Spyware Doctor from PCTOOLS (best so far)
- Ad-Aware SE Personal from Lavasoft
- SpyBot
- SpywareBlaster from Java Cool Software
and now Microsoft's AntiSpyware.