Security

If you have XP, you can turn on the firewall. But it isn't as good as third party and I see no reason not to use 3rd party.

Both PestPatrol and Ad-Aware are free.
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1. Disable ALL cookies in your browser.

2. Switch from IE to Mozilla and use the built-in pop-up blocker.

3. Manually search for and remove 'strange' software.

Many spy-ware programs create a link in the run keys in the registry.

You need to delete the keys for the spy-ware programs, along with ALL other registry and system file references to the program.

Next, find and remove ALL files associated with the application.

The advantage of using a 3rd party program is it takes less time, and is more accurate than cleaning out your system manually.

Manually editing the registry can be risky. If you delete or change a critical key, your PC may not boot.

4. Limit the web sites that you visit to those that you KNOW do not use spy-ware.
This includes being cautious with SPAM.

Chas

With out the use of antivirus and spywear detectors like spybot you would have to manually do the searches of your system.

This would include the cookies, registery entries, ect.

The task would be tremendous on one computer much less multiples on a network.

Good Luck Lee

Stop using the internet - the pc
and go back to the Abacus...

ok - enough jokes - -

First I would suggest using something like Adaware and Spybot because they are free and will help youdo what would otherwise take hours upon hours to do manually.

to remove the adaware and spyware manually vist your control panel and uninstall the software from there ...

then run adaware and spybot again...

Go to www.mlin.net and download startup control panel from
Mike's website. It is a pretty cool program that warn you of
programs that are trying to install themselves with out your
knowledge.