Afraid that someone is monitoring your PC?
Afraid that someone is monitoring your PC or installed a keylogger to record every single keystroke? Find out which tools you need to get to make sure you are protected
Ad-Aware
What is there to say about Ad-Aware we haven’t said before? We’ve been known to give this venerable antispyware utility a fair amount of print, and the attention is well-justified. Simply put, Ad-Aware is extremely effective at finding and removing the Web’s most notorious spyware components, as well as the newest and deadliest threats. Bells and whistles are not this program’s thing, but Ad-Aware keeps the focus where it belongs: on rock-solid protection.
HijackThis
Anyone who’s been in the ring with spyware knows some opponents just refuse to go down. If your arsenal of spyware-removal tools has failed to eighty-six a particularly devious intruder, this program could be one of your last hopes before reformatting. But unless you’re a serious computer surgeon, you’ll probably need to consult a Web-based forum to make sense of the program’s scan results. (For more information, read our HijackThis tutorial.) Though you won’t use it every day, sooner or later you’ll be glad you have HijackThis
