Ever get the feeling you are being watched? Think that big brother is indeed everywhere and does have his beady eyes upon you? Well, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that they are not out to get you - and indeed, as far as the internet is concerned - YES THEY ARE.

Anyone who uses the internet unguarded will fall foul to at least one(but probably loads) of the types of privacy invading software items known collectively as 'spyware'. Spyware is sneakily downloaded onto your system, often alongside a 'free' program and sits there recording your surfing habits and sending them back to base for the intruding company to sell on. Wonder why you get so much unsolicited junk mail? Why you get those unsolicited salesmen calling, phoning, faxing...well wonder no more - its probably these little blighters on your system. But, never fear, because Ad-aware is here to your rescue - ad its free too! Visit Lavasoft at www.lavasoftusa.com and you can download their free ad-aware software program which hunts out these offending programs, registry entries and cookies on you system and boots them off. Buy the full version for $15 and you can run a monitoring program to stop them coming back as well.

The software itself is small, at under 1Mb in size and download and installs quickly and painlessly. Painless to is the interface which is so simple that you'll never have to consult the manual. Simply select to scan memory, registry, hard disk drive or all three and click start and it'll merrily hunt out the nasties - 120 recognised nasties in my case! (well around 14 spyware programs with 120 files, reg entries etc.) How sweet that all those people are interested in my personal private affairs and are selling them to other companies all over the world...NOT! Well, they aren't any more because one further click and they are booted off...gone and never to come back thanks to ad-aware.

Trust me, if you haven't protected yourself against this stuff you'll have loads on your system, slowing you down, taking up processor time, bandwidth, memory etc. etc. before you even start to htink about security issues. I buy things online...do they record my credit card details as well?? Who knows, but they aren't going to get the opportunity now! Things you think are completely innocent contain spyware...Gator, Gozilla, Bearshare...there is an endless list. There is no such thing as a free lunch on the internet and this is the perfect example. Download this NOW(!) and protect yourself!

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