August 2006
Intermediate to advanced
448 pages
16h 8m
English
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Solutions for the End User • Chapter 5 195
Summary
In this chapter, we explored some of the many solutions available for com-
puter users to protect their systems from spyware. We broke down the various
applications into relative categories of freeware solutions, toolbar-based solu-
tions,
and licensed solutions.
In covering freeware solutions, we focused on a handful of products,
including Lavasoft
s
Ad-Aware SE Personal, Safer Networking
s
Spybot
—
Search & Destroy, Microsoft's Windows Defender, and Keylogger Hunter. We
discussed the basic installation and use of each application so that readers can
download and start using the application