How to detect and clean spyware off your system for FREE

BEFORE you click on a LINK in this BLOG be sure to skip down to the bottom paragraph and READ what I am saying FIRST. Once you know you have a good backup of your registry and your data then feel free to click on the House Call and CWShredder link that Trend Micro provides to the public for free.

http://www.trendmicro.com/spyware-scan/
We utilize Trend Micro on our network and we are a partner with Trend Micro and sell their products to all of our customers. So, with that in mind I would recommend that you point your computer to the URL above and see if the FREE online scan finds any spyware on your computer. If it does this FREE online scan will help you to remove the garbage from your computer.
http://www.trendmicro.com/cwshredder/
Go to the "Cwshredder" link and download the FREE spyware removal tool for "Coolwebsearch" which is a well known web browser hijacker that is very difficult to remove. Run this tool and see if you have this hijacker and if you do this tool will remove it for you.
http://www.trendmicro.com/download/trial/trial-pcc.asp
This link will allow you to download a 30 day trial of PcCillin Internet Security suite to your computer and you can use the full featured version for 30 days. If you like it after 30 days you go online and buy it.
I hope that this information is useful to you. If you have any questions feel free to email me at jcmoffitt@gmail.com OR leave a comment.

Here is the general rule of thumb with regards to downloading Freeware from the Internet. Nothing in life is free. If they say it is free that means that there is spyware, adware or malware included in that little goodie that will gum up your windows registry and eventually bog down your system.
It goes without saying that you should ALWAYS have a recent backup of your system BEFORE you start deleting registry entries etc..
Follow the following link that explains how to use "System Restore" to restore your system to where it was before you ran House Call IF you just have to have something put back.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/systemrestore.mspx
This link takes you to the Microsoft FAQ that tells you how to use system restore. If you are running a different Microsoft Operating System such as ME etc just do a google search on "System Restore ME" or whatever OS you are running.




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