From: "Glenn Meadows" 

On the Crazy Browser side, I've switched to Maxthon, and have virtually no
popups showing up, and it blocks 90% of the ads on websites as well, even
the flash ones.  Same tabbed approach that Crazy had/has, ala firefox. 
It's MY new browser of choice.

--
Glenn M.


"Geo"  wrote in message
news:41e5df6e$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> besides what /m said, spybot search and destroy
> http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html is good for
removing
> adware
>
> stinger for removing the most common virus http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/
>
> AVG free antivirus http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/ (free to
home
> users)
>
> sygate free firewall http://smb.sygate.com/download_buy.htm (again free
for
> home users)
>
> and I like crazybrowser for blocking popups and somewhat locking down IE
> although some popups still come thru http://www.nls.net/dloads/crazy.exe
>
> Geo.
>
> "Randall Parker"

wrote
> in message news:41e5bacc$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > I've seen people mention free stuff for checking and removing all the
> nasties that
> > get onto machines. I'd like to collect a comprehensive list and send it
to
> friends.
> > Anyone want to recommend freeware machine checking tools?
>
>

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