Removal Tools:

Ad-Aware

Important: Ad-aware is free for individual use only. To use the software in your office, you must purchase an end-user license

Ad-aware is a free utility that scans your memory, registry, and hard drives for known spy-ware components. In addition, it lets you remove these components without harming your computer. Ad-aware has a built-in update utility that will alert you when new reference files are available.  

Spy-bot Search and Destroy

Spy-bot Search and Destroy is a free utility that scans your memory, registry, and hard drives for known spy-ware components. In addition, it lets you remove these components without harming your computer.

Important: Please be aware that 4Help cannot provide support for this product.

Yahoo offers a tool bar that comes with a spy-ware removal tool, "Anti-Spy". In addition, you can stop pop-up ads, use the Yahoo! search engine, and customize your bookmarks and buttons. For more information and to download Yahoo! Toolbar with Anti-Spy, go to the Yahoo! Toolbar site.

Spy-Ware Remover is a multi Ad-Ware, Spy-Ware, Track-ware, Thief-ware & Big Brother-ware removal utility with multi-language support. It scans your Memory (for active memory ad components, which are not stored on your hard drive and last only as long as the computer is powered up), Registry and Drives for known Spy-Ware parasites and scum-ware components and lets you remove them safely even ad component DLLs. This tool is great if you value bandwidth, memory, & privacy, it hunts down those Spy-Ware programs hogging resources and causing conflictions on your computer. Also features Spy-Watch --A real-time Spy-Ware monitor watching your memory and registry for Spy-Ware that tries to install or change your system.

Spy-Ware Remover scans your system and looks for traces of recognized spy components such as (Ad-Ware, Advert-Bar, Alexa, Aureate, BDE, Cash-Bar, Comet Cursor, Common-Name, Conducent, Cy-door, Double-Click, DSS-Agent, Ever-Ad, eZula, Expedio-Ware, EWA, Flys-wat, Gator, Hot-Bar, Lop, Message-Mates, Net-Pal, On-Flow, Surf-Plus, Time-Sink, Top-Moxie, Transponder, Web3000, Web-Hancer, WNAD, Wurld, Zap-Spot & many more). After searching, it displays a list of what it found and lets you select the items you'd like to remove from your system or ignore. The interface is clean and straight-forward. First, determine what parts of your system you want to scan (Drives, Registry, Memory), then Scan.