Protection II

Yesterday's post was read, and you installed AVG-Antivirus and the Firefox browser, right? Go to MajorGeeks. Find the "Files" list on the left. Click on Spyware Tools. Download Ad-aware Personal Edition, Spybot-Search & Destroy and SpywareBlaster. Go back to the file list and find the category named Drive Cleaners. Download CCleaner. You are now ready to protect your PC from the thugs of the internet - people in the spyware business.

Install Spybot Search & Destroy first. It will guide you through the installation process. Follow instructions. If in doubt please read their excellent tutorial. There are several tweaks that can make this super program even more efficient, but that will be discussed in the online guide that is being developed for the Saltillo Beach House. Here's an important one that needs to be implemented. Go to mode on the toolbar at the top and change to advanced. Click on tools after it shows up at the bottom of the column. Then click on IE tweaks. Make sure you have your IE homepage set at a desired location and then check the three boxes that will prevent some jerk from hijacking your homepage. Close the program. Yep, just click on the 'X' in the top right corner. Be careful while in this mode, because you can change things that will give you cybernightmares.

Next on the list is Lavasoft's Ad-aware and JavaCoolSoftware's SpywareBlaster. It's almost the weekend. Hang in there.

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