Free Anti-spyware Software
Posted by Joseph Brochin
Spybot Search and Destroy (SBSD) is one of the most popular free anti-spyware softwares available on the web. We have downloaded it and it found spyware that other versions have missed, although most where harmless cookies and the like.
Most reviews of SBSD show that this free anti-spyware software is liked by most techies, but most seem to agree it should be used in conjunction with other anti-spyware. We recommend this as well.
Just as with other free software, like free anti-virus software, we install different versions on our computers and run scans using all, once a week. However, I recommend only running one software version at a time.
As with the free anti-virus software we covered last week, give yourself some time for the scan to run using SBSD.
Here is your download link and ensure you run updates after downloading. This will also be added to our free package at the end of this series about free software.
After you download and install, we recommend you view the embedded video. We followed the video step by step and it is very good and will help tremendously. Don’t panic if his screen for Spybot S&D is a little different, you still have the same options as the video shows. Watch it, pause it, execute the steps and continue until finished.
Free Antivirus Software
Posted by Joseph Brochin
We have skipped a week and we are sorry if you look forward to our updates. That said, our next series will be over some FREE software that you can find around the web. We will be posting links for download through each post, but once we are finished in the next few weeks, if you would like to get all this software in an All In One Pack, please join the Small Business Advantage.
So lets get started with a cute little free anti-virus software from Avira. We just ran this on our home PC and it caught malware and viruses that our current software did not. In fact this anti-virus software from Avira was recommended in Maximum PC magazine in this months issue (June 2009).
This free anti-virus software does a very deep scan, so I would recommend you set it to run when you have an hour or two. It is very easy to use and of course you can set up auto updates to run as soon as it connects to the network or to run manually. You can also set it to schedule scans as well.
According to the article in Maximum PC (June 2009), “It’s the only scanner in our antivirus roundup (January 2009) to triumph with a near clean sweep during Virus Bulletin’s latest testing, and it did so without reporting any false positives.”
Download Your Free Version Here.